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FAQ for A/S Short Courses
FAQs on the Short Course (VSC) following AS:
What is the course?
How is it funded?
UCAS Points?
Can it be completed within a week?
Where does it take place?
Is it a pass/fail course?
How is the portfolio managed?
Who registers the students?
What is the structure/content of the programme.
When is the best time to run this course?
What will it cost the college?
Where else has the programme been run?
What college resources are needed?
What college staff are required?
What’s the reflection session?
What is the course?
The course is a 3-day fully managed programme focusing on employability and enterprise skills
How is it funded?
It is funded through the completion of a qualification which can be conducted at Levels 2 or 3. The qualification is commonly a Wider Key Skill such as Working with Others or Problem Solving.
UCAS Points
By using this route the course enables those that pass to collect 20 UCAS tariff points at Level 3 and 10 UCAS tariff points at Level 2*. For more information on this please visit http://www.ucas.ac.uk/students/ucas_tariff/tarifftables/
*Level 2 Key Skills will continue to attract Tariff points for 2010 but will be removed from the Tariff for entry into higher education from 2011 onwards.
Can it be completed within a week?
The course takes three days during which the bulk of the student portfolio work is created. After leaving a few days for reflection the rest of the work needed to complete the portfolio can be created within a reflection session
Where does it take place?
The course can be run on your site if you have sufficient space or at an external location (costs for the external location are not included in the course costs)
Is it a pass/fail course?
This course is a pass or fail course – there are no grades awarded
How is the portfolio managed?
Working Knowledge organises the creation of the portfolio through course facilitation, and then processes the portfolio on our premises away from the college. The prepared portfolio is then returned to the college on the reflection day for completion and subsequent internal and external moderations as required.
Who registers the students?
The college must register the students for the qualification as they would any other.
What is the structure/content of the programme?
The course runs over three days and involves teams of students generating a new social or commercial business idea. The course includes a series of workshops that cover planning, marketing, people and operations. On the final day local business people are invited in to work with the students to refine their ideas and help them get ready to present them to a judging panel.
When is the best time to run this course?
Most colleges like to run this course after the AS exam period and before students leave for the summer. Many colleges have found that the nature of the course retains students who may otherwise consider not returning after the summer break. Other colleges have run it at induction, during Enterprise Week or after the Christmas break.
What will it cost the college?
Usually the course costs in the region of £xxx per student which is about 40% of the value that can be drawn down from your funding body.
Where else has the programme been run?
The programme has been run at a number of colleges across the country including City of Bristol, Abingdon and Witney and Redcar and Cleveland Colleges.
What college resources are needed?
The college needs to provide the space, chairs and refreshments for the event to take place – a single space works best. Some colleges provide food for students but it is not a requirement
What college staff are required?
Dependent on the number of students, the college would have to provide tutors in the ratio of approximately 1 tutor for every 20 students in order to follow assessment rules, but if that is impractical Working Knowledge can provide external assessors at an extra charge. The college would have to allow those tutors to attend a short training session before the event. The college would also have to provide an appropriate internal moderator for the resulting portfolios. The tutors would also have to attend the reflection session.
What’s the reflection session?
The reflection session happens a few days after the event to allow students to think about what they learnt during the event. During the reflection session the students answer a series of structured questions about what they did, how they felt about it and what they learnt. All reflections are included in the portfolio on the day.
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