National Certificates and Progression Awards - Adding value and developing skills in the senior phase

Schools and colleges can benefit from a revised and updated set of NQ programmes as they plan the delivery of the senior phase of Curriculum for Excellence.

Centres across Scotland are working in partnership to review and refresh their non advanced programmes through the development of new National Certificates and National Progression Awards.

This session will highlight the flexibility of these programmes - in delivery and in content - which enables both schools and colleges to develop young people’s transferable skills in the context of vocational learning, while also meeting the needs of employers for a well rounded and flexible workforce with the right mix of essential and practical skills.

National Qualification Group Award Project Managers will be joined by practitioners from participating centres who will demonstrate how these qualifications are being used to add breadth to the curriculum.

They will share their experience of using these qualifications to meet the needs of young people and potential employers in developing skills for learning, life and work and explore how the aspirations of Curriculum for Excellence can be embedded in their design and implementation.

Elda Fleck, NQGA Project Manager, SQA

Elda, Genevieve and Joe have long association with colleges as practitioners, managers and in curriculum development.

Additional speakers will be drawn from centres delivering National Certificates and National Progression Awards in innovative and creative ways.

Additional speakers: Genevieve McCabe, Project Manager, SQA and Joseph Spencer, Project Manager, SQA