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Page 1: NewVIc’s Perspective on Progression to HE from the BTEC Qualification
Page 2: NewVIc’s Perspective on Progression to HE from the BTEC Qualification

NewVIc’s Perspective on Progression to HE from the BTEC

Qualification

Page 3: NewVIc’s Perspective on Progression to HE from the BTEC Qualification

• The Students

• NewVIc’s BTEC offer

Overview of NewVIc

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Progression to HE

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• HE fails to understand the qualification

• Post 16 providers fail to understand what HE requires

• BTEC qualifications fails to fully prepare students for HE

Barriers to BTEC Students Gaining Entry to HE

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• Admission tutors to not know the qualification• Content• Structure• Purpose

• Misconceptions• No exams• No extended prose• BTECs are not true vocational qualifications

• Tacit learning is not BTEC learning

HE Fails to Understand the Qualification

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‘Practical learning’, ‘Learning by doing’ - dangerous terms

Downplay ‘formal’ learning and knowledge – suggest many jobs are not ‘knowledge-based’ – English problem of not valuing ‘ordinary’ jobs

German concept of ‘Beruf’ – every occupation has a corresponding body of vocational knowledge/theory – therefore – associated vocational pedagogy

HE Fails to Understand the Qualification Cont.

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• Post 16 entry• No long term view• Bright students told to do A-levels

• Qualifications students must hold to gain HE offers

• No exams• No extended prose assignments

Post 16 Providers Fail to Understand What HE Requires

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• Lack of academic writing skills• Express through examples not theory• Given all sources by teachers• Low expectations by teachers and students• Lack revision and exam technique

Post 16 Part of the Issue

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• Distinction with no writing• No need for essays• No need for formal referencing• No capping on late submission

BTEC Qualifications Fails to Fully Prepare Students for HE

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Different entry requirements for different courses

Assignments are written which require long prose and academic writing

Some areas set internal examinationsProgramme teams review entry requirements

for their subject degrees and make sure the students have the relevant entry reqs, such as an A level in Maths for Computer Science

What NewVIc does

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Changes are Coming

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You need not see what someone is doing

To know if it is his vocation,

You only have to watch his eyes:

A cook mixing his sauce, a surgeon making a primary incision,

A clerk completing a bill of lading

Wear the same rapt expression.

Forgetting themselves in function,

How beautiful it is,

That eye-on-the-object look.

W.H. Auden 1954

“Sext” Horae Canonicae

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Annex C – OFFA commissioned analysis from HEFCE on Trends in Young Participation by selectivity of institutionhttp://www.offa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Trends-in-young-participation-by-selectivity-of-institution.pdf

Unwin, L (2014), ‘Vocational Pedagogy’, paper presented at Newham Sixth Form College, April 30th 2014.

Read, Sarah (2015), ‘Vocational-Qualification-Reform-–-What-is-happening-to-vocational-and-technical-qualifications-and-why’, paper presented at the AoC Vocational-Qualification-Reform, February 24th 2015

Curtis, Jan (1997), "W. H. AUDEN'S THEOLOGY OF HISTORY IN HORAE CANONICAE: ‘PRIME’, ‘TERCE’, AND ‘SEXT’". Literature and Theology 11 (1): 46–66.

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