Basic Information
- Every school has a member of staff who is responsible for planning and implementation of all school-college partnership arrangements.
- The names of School-College contacts for each school and the College contacts are here.
- When planning courses it is important to remember that schools term times for 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 are different from college term times.
are different from college term times. - A general City of Edinburgh School-College partnership document has been agreed.
- Stevenson College partnership document contains much the same detail.
- Jewel & Esk Valley College and Edinburgh's Telford College have their individual versions, to suit their situation.
- It is the responsibility of the Headteacher (or delegated person) to sign the School College Partnership document.
Details of all course provision can be found on the Colleges page.
NOTE: The listing of a course does not necessarily guarantee its current availability
Background
- The National Strategy for School College Partnership document provides the full intentions for 'Lifelong Learning' and has invaluable exemplar material in its Appendices.
- The addition of more college courses sometimes introduces less familiar qualifications. Qualifications are all part of the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework . An information card can be downloaded here which shows how they relate to each other.
- The SQA SfW Operational Guide provides the essential information for school and college staff responsible for the management of the paperwork etc for these courses. An information pack is also available.
The SQA Skills for Work courses have been publicised via a series of newsletters:
SfW Update - Issue1
SfW Update - Issue 2
SfW Update - Issue 3
SfW Update - Issue 4
SfW Update - Issue 5
Sfw Update - Issue 6
For all the information about SfW courses the SQA has a special section devoted to SfW
Recent information about new courses is also stored in the Resources section of the website.
- LTS(Learning and Teaching Scotland) information about Skills for Work gives a concise summary
- FutureSkills Scotland provide information on possible job prospects in the future. We can ensure that our decisions about courses are taken with this in mind.
