SAVE
YEAR:
2009 - 2011
Embedding civic engagement in sustainable development in formal curricula of VET.
RESULTS:
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To promote career prospects and the development of entrepreneurial skills;
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To provide a sector-specific educational programme for entrepreneurs and the self-employed, within both vocational education (BOL) and apprenticeship-based training (BBL);
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Innovating the educational provision and the learning environment through ‘blended learning’ (integrating practice and theory through face-to-face sessions and e-learning);
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Enabling the business community, educational and research institutions, and experts to enter into a sustainable partnership;
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Carrying out two regional pilot projects with a total of at least 60 participants;
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Disseminating the results nationwide.
REASON:
A competence-based assessment framework (P-scales) was designed by the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA) in the United Kingdom to provide a means of monitoring the progress of pupils with special educational needs who are unable to achieve qualifications through the ‘standard’ route. The P-scales (Performance Scales) are written in the style of competence-based qualifications and, as such, provide a ready-made structure for the certification of ‘special’ pupils as well. In the United Kingdom, The Learning Machine (TLM) has created an affordable system of certificates based on so-called P-scales, enabling pupils with special educational needs to measure their performance in the same way as their mainstream counterparts. The integration of this approach to qualifications and certification is also essential across the rest of Europe to offer pupils with special educational needs an opportunity within mainstream educational institutions.
OBJECTIVES:
To offer affordable, innovative methods and techniques for qualification and certification to learners with special needs within the EQF (European Qualifications Framework). And thereby to ensure that these learners can also attend mainstream educational institutions and are no longer excluded from participating in this form of education.