2012 BTEC courses review

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Dear Department for Education,

please can you tell me a list of the vocational courses that will no longer be equivalent to GCSEs and the ones that will after the announcement by Micheal Gove on January 31st 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-1678...

Yours faithfully,

Tim Baker

Department for Education

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Department for Education
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Department for Education

 
Dear Mr Baker

Thank you for your email, dated 01 February 2012, regarding the recent Key Stage 4 performance tables announcements.

I have included below a link to our website, where you will find a list of qualifications that will be recognised as
equivalent to GCSEs in school performance tables in 2014 (and taught from September 2012):

[1]http://education.gov.uk/schools/teaching...

We will publish an update to this list in March, which will include any newly accredited versions of these
qualifications. Qualifications that are not on the list will not count in the performance tables.

Each Level 2 qualification that is included will count in the performance tables as equivalent to one GCSE graded A*
to C. Qualifications at Level 1 will count as equivalent to up to one GCSE graded D to G, depending on their size.

It is important to emphasise that the reform of school performance tables, and whether or not a qualification is
counted as ‘equivalent’ to a GCSE, is intended to focus attention on those qualifications that will provide the
majority of students with the best route to success in education and employment. 

Universities, colleges and employers will make their own judgements about the value of different qualifications
depending on the particular course and qualification in question.  Schools can still offer any other qualifications
that are not included in performance tables, as long as they have been approved for use pre-16. In all cases schools
should act as they judge to be in the best interests of their pupils. The full list of qualifications approved for
use pre-16, including those not approved for the performance tables, is available on the Department’s section 96
website:

[2]http://education.gov.uk/section96/

I hope that you find this information useful.

Yours sincerely,
Michael Singh
Vocational Qualifications and Funding Support Division
[email address]
[3]www.education.gov.uk

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