There certainly isn't any rule on this from AOs but it may be that different providers have made decisions themselves - perhaps because the sizing of the awards are different? It might be worth asking within your organisation to see what they say?
Diana Tremayne
Advanced Learning Practitioner / ESOL E2 Course Leader
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Calderdale College
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Sent: Sat 2/28/2015 18:47
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Subject: Re: Question for those organising acreditted community classes
Hi Dominic,There was a post about this recently - was that from you as well?As others replied, this sounds very much like an institutional thing to me.All I can add is that a lady from Trinity came to tell us about their new exams but didn't mention anything about this. All she did say was that in order to get the overarching certificate, candidates need to pass all four modes at the same level, which is a different issue entirely.At our institution (large FE college), learners in the same class can be entered for different modes at different levels, but this must be the same as their qualaim which has to be entered on their ILR and submitted to somebody (maybe the SFA?) early on in the term. We (teachers) decide what the qualaim will be based on diagnostic testing, what learners have passed already and what we think they can achieve. Maybe where you work someone in admin gives all the learners in the class the same qualaim?Catrin
On Saturday, 28 February 2015, 16:08, Dominic Clarke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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I am advised that students in the same ESOL class who are being entered for exams must all be entered forthe same mode at the same level. I do not know if this restriction has come from within my organisation, from the particular examining board, from the SFA or from somewhereelse. This is a particularly difficult situation for tutorsand students in outreach classes which almost invariablycontain wide range of proficiencies and mixture oflevels with regards to the 4 skills.
Has anyone else heard about this ?
Regards
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