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QCA 14 - 19

DfES Qualifications

LSDA

Target Setting at KS4

14 - 19 Pathfinders

The UK Schools Public Examination System

The Pupils Achievement Tracker

ICT for School leaders
This site provides information for Leadership Teams and Senior Managers to help them lead and manage their schools  more effectively using ICT.

National Curriculum on-line

Working Group on Reform

Building the Grid 14 -19

An Explanation of Short Course GCSE

GNVQ Information

NVQ information

BBC Web Guide to all KS4 subjects

Open Quals QCA's database of accredited qualifications

Teachernet

GCSE Booster Materials 2004

Useful Documents

Vocational Pathways. Ofsted have now published the report on the introduction of applied GCSEs look specifically at pp1-8 which summarise the findings, and on p7 there are actions required at local and school level.

A very helpful and timely publication from QCA has appeared, called Designing a Personalised Curriculum for alternative provision at KS4. It has lots of useful case studies of both individual students and institutions.

The QCA introduction to the document is at:
http://www.qca.org.uk/14-19/11-16-schools/index_1266.htm

Paper copies can be ordered from:
QCA Publications, PO Box 99, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 2SN
(tel 01787 884444; fax 01787 312950)
quoting order reference QCA/04/1299.

The QCA briefing on 14-19 developments

Sam Learning
For SATs, GCSE and A Level, SAM Learning offers comprehensive e-learning that's proven to improve exam results. Suppliers to 26 LEAs in the UK - 103,123 students chose to use SAM Learning last academic year. 48% of usage was outside school hours. Some of this is free but most is a subscription service.

ECDL We are offering the ECDL for Educators at Cricket Rd Center phone 01865 428034 or a straight ECDL is available through OXPENs.

Quite a lot of specialist schools are following 'online' GNVQ courses provided by other schools as a package, at around £3000 per cohort.

1. Thomas Telford - the widest used (some 470 schools) http://www.gnvqict.com/p40/Index.htm
2. Brooke Weston http://www.brookeweston.com/index.html
3. Varndean. http://www.varndean.co.uk/gnvqhome.asp

Other big subscription services are:

Digital Brain

To support AS Business Studies, Psychology, Sociology and French

User name: initialfamilyname.oasis eg jsmith.oasis

Password: school name ( cherwell, larkmead, sthelens, wallingford,
bartholomew, henrybox, burford, bgnapier, marlborough, wheatley)

Digitalbrain plc could support the delivery and management of various courses. If you would like more details contact:
Maureen Harrison
maureen@digitalbrain.com
07977 488932
01772 739518

Learn.co.uk
You will then see a list of every topic covered by the national curriculum, or by your GCSE syllabus. (It doesn't matter which syllabus you're doing, we've made sure our materials cover the whole range: the only exception is that we cannot cover every single allowed English literature text, we've just covered the most commonly used ones.) Some bits are made available free.

Test My Knowledge an on-line testing system for GCSE and A Level preparation - a subscription service.