Dalbeattie Excessive College is celebrating changing into the area’s first bronze ambassador for the Scottish Credit score and Qualifications Framework.
The SCQF helps pupils by recognising wider achievement – not simply examination grades – and appears at ways in which faculties will help college students with wider studying experiences and alternatives.
All secondary faculties in Dumfries and Galloway are SCQF college ambassadors.
All of them develop senior part studying pathways in step with the Growing the Younger Workforce Technique and supply a steadiness for learners between vocational and tutorial qualifications.
Dalbeattie Excessive College has been profitable in upgrading their standing to a bronze ambassador.
The SCQF partnership has recognised its “complete college strategy”, pupil consciousness, parental engagement and understanding of the framework and the way it may be used to assist learners and employers.
By creating quite a few exterior relationships with companions comparable to Stewartry Lively Colleges and Group Sport, native employer Jas P Wilson, Dumfries and Galloway School and the regional council, Dalbeattie Excessive has been capable of provide its younger individuals a variety of qualifications and curriculum pathways alongside extra conventional choices.
These programs – Abilities for Work, Nationwide Development Awards and Basis apprenticeships – present vocational studying alternatives while permitting for sensible experiences to happen.
Every qualification carries SCQF tariff factors which depend in the direction of Additional and Greater Training entrance necessities.
Interim chief government, Derek Crichton and director of schooling and studying, Gillian Brydson offered the award to Stuart McGougan, performing head instructor final week.
Mr McGougan, mentioned: “Growing consciousness of SCQF framework has actually helped our younger individuals and their households higher perceive the growing number of qualifications, pathways and alternatives obtainable to them.”