About Higher Education
Higher education is tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree. Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completion of secondary education.
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Professional results are a mixture of predicted grades, and delays
Professional skills must variety replacement, after the cancellation of exams in this summer
qualifications needed to be in further education or universities of the estimated grades, should of England, says watchdog Tests .
Ofqual has proposed to replace the plans that the professional exams of termination by the Corona-Virus outbreak.
But it says qualifications require a practical, hands-on-test could be delayed.
Ofqual chief Sally Collier says where possible, should not "detained the students in mind".
published by The exams watchdog, proposals for the award of professional qualifications is not disturbed by the pandemic, with decisions taken after a two-week hearing.
There are about 14,000 different qualifications and 160 awarding organisation and Ofqual says it is to complex to The Type of "one-size-fits-all" standardized approach to A-levels and GCSE.
But qualifications, such as some BTecs, which will be used for participation in further education colleges or Higher Education have an estimated grade, in accordance with The Way the A-levels and GCSE are assessed in this year.
the notes are working on the basis of findings of assignments, modules, or classes conducted during The Course , before the lockdown ended, students attending classes.
progress in the job "vital"This would give students time to get your applications for the courses in the fall - pushed, with the deadline for decisions on the choice of a University, of course, Back To the middle of June of this year.
But the qualifications for the practical, job-related skills are likely to be delayed.
The watchdog said that, for example, a test in driving a fork-lift could not be done online, or through an estimate, so that kind of evaluation would have to wait.
There are skills, both theoretical and practical Tests and for this, the regulator says that the authority to decide whether it is "close " is" with those who try to go to a further stage of training or is primarily for a practical job skill.
the plans for replacement of the grades for the qualifications that are subject specific to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own EverNote regulators.
"It is extremely important that the learners in the vocational and technical qualifications are not prevented from progress in their studies or careers because of example, said lots of challenges this summer," Mrs Koehler.
David Hughes , chief executive of The Association of Colleges, said the proposals would help "to calm you, students and universities".
ofqual, vocational education, coronavirus lockdown measures, schools
Source of news: bbc.com
