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Vocational Qualifications at Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5: Who Takes Them and How They Fit into Students' Programmes of Study. Research Report
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Vidal Rodeiro, Carmen; Vitello, Sylvia – Cambridge Assessment, 2020
In 2010, the government announced their latest drive to raise the status of vocational qualifications in secondary education. This overhaul was subsequently enacted based on recommendations made by Alison Wolf in her review of vocational education. As a result, the Department for Education (DfE) introduced four new categories of vocational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Qualifications, Secondary Education
Reformed A Level Results: Do Candidates Who Take the AS Level Achieve Better Grades?
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Williamson, Joanna; Vitello, Sylvia – Cambridge Assessment, 2018
Candidates taking a reformed (decoupled) Advanced (A) level may follow an 'Advanced Subsidiary (AS) + A level' route in that subject, taking the decoupled AS level, usually in Year 12, followed by the A level, usually in Year 13. Alternatively, they may follow an 'A level only' route. The research described in this report explored whether there…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disciplines, Educational Change
AS Level Trends 2018
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Williamson, Joanna; Vitello, Sylvia – Cambridge Assessment, 2018
This report presents findings from two studies on Advanced Subsidiary (AS) level trends in 2018. The first part of the report describes national trends in AS level entries from analyses of data published by Ofqual. This updates the previous quantitative analysis of AS level trends in 2017 (Vitello & Williamson, 2018). The rest of the report…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Educational Change, Enrollment Trends
AS Level Trends 2017
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Vitello, Sylvia; Williamson, Joanna – Cambridge Assessment, 2018
This report presents findings from an ongoing research project monitoring the impact of the Advanced Subsidiary (AS) and Advanced (A) level reforms in England that came into effect from September 2015. Three studies were conducted in the spring of 2017, during the second year of teaching of decoupled AS and A levels. The first study analysed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Educational Change, Enrollment Trends