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14 to 19 Year Olds Qualifications

Qualifications for 14-16 year old and Performance tables DfE July 2011

NOCN Response to DfE announcement

NOCN Response to DfE announcement to the Study Programmes for 16-19 year olds

Qualification Suite

Qualification Overview

Level /Minimum Age

Careers Education & preparation for working life
  • Our qualifications in Careers Education and Preparation for Working Life have been designed to support the offer of careers education in schools and to support adult learners to progress to employment, education and training.
Level 114
Level 214
Developing Skills for Employment
  • Our qualifications in Developing Skills for Employment (QCF) aim to develop a wide range of skills relevant to vocational employment which allow young people to make informed career and progression choices.
Level 114
Level 214
Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability
  • Our qualifications in Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability (QCF) aim to increase learners’ knowledge of the society in which they live and work, providing them with the knowledge and skills to make balanced and increasingly independent transitions both now and in later life.
Level 114
Level 214
Leading Learning
  • These qualifications are designed to develop leadership skills for those undertaking a Learning Leader role within a school or other setting for example workplace, community, custodial setting or Further Education college, where they will lead and support learners in activities to develop literacy, mathematics, science or ICT skills and understanding.
Level 214
Personal Well-Being
  • The NOCN qualifications in Personal Well-Being form part of a suite of Personal Social Health Economic education qualifications which aim to increase learners’ knowledge of the society in which they live and will work.
Level 114
Level 214
Progression
  • Our qualifications in Progression have been devised to progress learners into further learning and/or employment. Over 600 units can be combined to create individualised learning programmes tailored to learners' needs.
Entry 316
Level 116
Step Up
  • Our qualifications in Skills Towards Enabling Progression (Step-UP) (QCF) are an innovative range of credit-based qualifications, developed to accredit a wide variety of activities engaged in by learners aged 14 years and over.
Entry 314
Level 114

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