| 9.30 Registration and coffee
10.00 Denmark, Norway and Sweden – a Decade of Reform
- Upper
Secondary education for all: 100% participation and achievement
target, and campaign
- Danish Gymnasiums, Technical, Commercial Colleges:
three year apprentice-style vocational education contracts,
bridge – building
with the school sector.
- Pointers for the UK: - all young people,
cultural expectations, parity of esteem issues, alternatives
for 30% disaffected, quality
of provision, clear structures, counselling
11.00 Coffee
11.15 Wales and England
- Wales : Learning Country: Learning Pathways
14-19 : Consultation and Action Plan 2003
- National Target, 14 -19
Continuum, New Attainment Levels, Common Core 14-19 , Learning
Pathways, Work-based / Work-related Learning,
Accreditation of all Learning Experience, Learning Coaches,
Partnership approach
- Links with ‘14-19 : opportunity and excellence’ White
Paper
12.30 Lunch
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13.30 Case Study 1 The 16-19 Dropout Problem
- Danish
Alternative provisions,
- Norwegian Follow-Up Service,
- Swedish Individual Programmes,
- Welsh Proposals,
- English solutions
14.30 Case Study 2 The New Baccalaureate
- An International Perspective:
- French Structures, Danish core studies,
- Swedish branches,
- Scottish Higher Still,
- Welsh Bac,
- English Bac,
- International Baccalaureate
15.30 Next steps, summary and close
15.45 Tea and depart
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Reasons to attend.
This course is designed for policy makers, politicians, senior college
staff, middle managers who wish to improve the performance of their
students, careers officers, and training providers. It will review
the ways in which some of the crucial issues affecting the 14-19
student have been overcome in other countries, and how institutions
may use lessons from elsewhere to avoid pitfalls and improve performance
as the English 14-19 agenda unfolds. |
