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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
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
Progression from Level 3 Cambridge Technicals to Higher Education
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Rodeiro, Carmen Vidal – Cambridge Assessment, 2018
This report presents research on a cohort of Level 3 Cambridge Technicals students (19095 'unique' students) that were sent to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) to be tracked against the 2017 cycle year for the undergraduate scheme. Information on these students was extracted from Oxford, Cambridge and The Royal Society of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Gender Differences, Age Differences, Qualifications
The Impact of the Introduction of Progress 8 on the Uptake of Qualifications in English Schools -- An Update for 2016/17. Research Report
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Gill, Tim – Cambridge Assessment, 2018
This report is an updated version of an analysis undertaken last year (Gill, 2017) which looked at the impact of the introduction of new accountability measures (Attainment 8 and Progress 8) on the qualifications and subjects taken by students at the end of Key Stage 4 (KS4). It adds in data from the 2016/17 academic year, which was the second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Grades (Scholastic), Academic Achievement
The Impact of the Introduction of Progress 8 on the Uptake and Provision of Qualifications in English Schools. Research Report
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Gill, Tim – Cambridge Assessment, 2017
The recent introduction of new accountability measures in English schools, such as Progress 8, may have had an impact on the qualifications and subjects taken by students and offered by schools in England. The main headline measure by which schools are judged has been changed from the proportion of students achieving 5 or more GCSE grades A* to C…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Grades (Scholastic), Academic Achievement