Thematic report |
Effective strategies for learners to achieve key skills within qualification frameworks - June 2008
Since May 2006, there has been a significant improvement in the number of learners who complete key skills qualifications. However, in recent years, key skills requirements for qualifications frameworks have changed so that they are not as demanding as they were previously. In addition, providers have put in place effective strategies to improve the quality, delivery, and attainment of key skills and qualifications frameworks. Other factors, such as the way supporting evidence is collected, have contributed to this increase in attainment.All providers have taken part in training events to improve their understanding and expertise in key skills. This training has also helped to share good practice.
Recommendations
The Welsh Assembly Government should:
- make sure that robust contractual arrangements are in place with work-based learning providers to ensure the attainment of qualification frameworks;
- continue to provide on-going support and training for key skills at a national level to help work-based learning providers to improve the quality of their training and to increase the number of learners attaining qualification frameworks; and
- improve the collection, analysis and use of data to enable work-based learning providers to benchmark their performance accurately and to identify areas of their work which need to improve.
Work-based learning providers should:
- further develop strategies to increase learners’ attainment of key skills and qualification frameworks; and
- make sure that off-the-job training, including key skills, is a compulsory part of learning programmes.