General Curriculum Information - Diplomas and business education
These articles have been written from material supplied by
Christine Blowman and Adam Wilby
In September 2008 the first five lines of the piloted and long awaited Specialised Diploma Lines became more widely available. The qualification for 14-19 year olds offers learners an opportunity to experience a range of learning styles in their usual setting but also in other specialist learning centres, and crucially in the workplace. The idea is that this approach will help young people to make more informed choices about what kind of work they might want to do.
Business Education inevitably permeates all seventeen of the new Diploma Lines as all must have rich veins of applied learning running from their core. Each line has been devised in conjunction with the associated Sector Skills Council and each will rely heavily on the industries and indeed businesses within their sector to provide the quality and quantity of genuine applied learning opportunities required. Inevitably this will bring elements of Business and Enterprise Education to learners across the spectrum of Diploma Lines in an unprecedented manner. As such, and as classroom teachers of Business Education, we all face fantastic opportunities to support learning across the lines.
The resources on offer in this unit, which can be downloaded from the download section on the right, comprise:
- An overview of the Diploma lines of study and implementation schedule
- Information on functional skills with examples
- Information specifically on the Business, Administration and Finance (BAF) Diploma
- A paper on issues raised, and areas for reflection, on plans for delivering BAF
- Ideas on how the business education teacher or lecturer can offer support to other subjects with the applied elements of the diploma
- Links, references and further areas of support
Articles from past editions of the EBEA magazine which address issues around the diplomas can be downloaded from the magazine archives page
