Making the most of the QCF: National Conference 2011

This event took place at the Cumberland Hotel in London on Tuesday 13 December. The Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) is fully operational and public funding is now supporting the delivery of individual units from the QCF to eligible unemployed learners and within the Offender Learning and Skills Service (OLASS ) and the Joint Investment Programme. 

Increasingly colleges and training providers are also using the flexibility of the QCF to develop tailored, co or fully funded packages of training for employers and individuals.

The aims of the day were to:

• receive the latest information from the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) on the opportunities for unit based delivery;
• explore issues identified by colleges and training providers who participated in the unit delivery trials;
• learn from emerging practice in QCF delivery from LSIS QCF lead providers;
• find out the latest information about the Personal Learner Record (PLR); develop a better understanding of the opportunities to use the QCF to recognise prior learning; and
• consider how to develop a whole organisation staff development plan to support QCF implementation.

Presentations from the conference workshop and keynotes are available to download.

Keynotes

QCF and Agency update (pdf, 141KB), Leighton Ernsberger, Senior Policy Manager, Qualification Reform, Skills Funding Agency
How the QCF can save you money (pdf, 148KB), Vici Cadwallader-Webb, Associate Director, Education, Training and Skills, RSM Tenon

Workshops

1. College - Lessons learned from unit delivery (pdf, 433KB), Richard Sharples, Education Relations and Teresa Cole, Highbury College
2. Independent Training Providers - Lessons learned from unit delivery (pdf, 352KB), Stella Turner, AELP and Stephen Crawely, Skills Training
3. The place of QCF within the ACL/VCS sector - getting ready unit delivery (pdf, 247KB), Robert Gray, NIACE and Jo Booth, Whirlow Hall Farm Trust
4. Increasing retention through QCF (pdf, 161KB), Debra Gray, Chesterfield College and Tez Gittens, Henley College
5. Using QCF to recognise prior learning (pdf, 1.12MB), Finbar Lillis, Credit Works
6. Udpate on the Personal Learning Record (PLR) (pdf, 486KB), Carole Morley, The Learner Registration Service
7. Planning for unit delivery (pdf,254KB), Lynn Clough, LSIS Associate
8. Developing an organisation wide training plan to support QCF implementation (pdf,255KB), Ruth Perry, LSIS Associate and Viv Barrett, Waltham Forest CLaSS

Handouts

Workshop 2 and 3: Using the QCF to recognise prior learning (pdf, 632 KB)

If would like to download copies of the 'Making the most of QCF' documents available at the conference, visit the Excellence Gateway resource library.