Why BTECs are the Way Forward
From animal management to business studies, Sixth Formers have a growing choice of qualifications, including the BTEC, to choose from, writes Katie Hughes
Sixth Formers at Bede?s in Sussex, who have veterinary nursing, conservationism or zoo keeping in their post-school sights, can study for a BTEC in animal management in the school?s very own zoo. Their counterparts at Cheltenham College in Gloucestershire, on the other hand, can hone their business skills by taking mini MBAs alongside A-Levels and EPQs. And at the Stamford Endowed Schools in Lincolnshire, pupils learn how to save lives with professional lifeguard qualifications.
Practical qualifications like these are increasingly being offered by independent Senior Schools. And recent findings from the Independent Schools Council (ISC) show that the number of BTECs (qualifications that combine practical and theoretical learning) taken at ISC schools has more than doubled in the last four years. “Schools are lucky because they have the resources to be able to offer a mixed bag of qualifications, which work best for their students,? explains Will Phelan, Principal of the Stamford Endowed Schools in Lincolnshire. ?Education is about recognising that all children are different.”
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