newvic’s perspective on progression to he from the btec qualification
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NewVIc’s Perspective on Progression to HE from the BTEC
Qualification
• The Students
• NewVIc’s BTEC offer
Overview of NewVIc
Progression to HE
• 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
• 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
‘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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
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
Changes are Coming
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
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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