The Third Report of the Chief Regulator
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The Third Report of the Chief Regulator
- 1. Welcome Launch of The Third Chief Regulator’s Report 15 December 2010
- 2. Welcome and Introduction Francis Thomas Director of Internal and External Affairs
- 3. The Third Chief Regulator’s Report Isabel Nisbet Chief Executive
- 5. Context – the policy environment
- 38. Using Qualifications: a view from Higher Education Professor Sir Robert Burgess Vice-Chancellor, University of Leicester Chair, UCAS Chief Regulator’s Report Launch 15 December 2010
- 39. UCAS UK APPLICANTS 2010 Applicants Accepts % Accepted 2010 2010 2010 Total Applicants 583,272 421,288 72.2% Qualifications A levels 367,899 285,327 77.6% A level only 264,524 208,140 78.7% A level and BTEC/OCR only 37,175 29,256 78.7% A level and other 66,200 47,931 72.4% No A levels 215,373 135,961 63.1% BTEC/OCR only 57,654 39,947 69.3% SQA Award only 35,416 24,799 70.0% Access only 12,397 8,074 65.1% Other 100,327 59,457 59.3% No qualifications 9,579 3,684 38.5%
- 40. 1999 Entry – Accepts (UK domiciled) Source: UCAS Statistics Reviewed the way in which the Academy is moving forward as indicated in the recent letter and am confident that this will be the way forwar din difficult times.
- 41. The Changing Profile of Accepted Applicants Source: UCAS Statistics
- 42. 2010 Entry – Accepts (UK domiciled) Source: UCAS Statistics
- 43. A Levels Accepts Source: UCAS Statistics
- 51. Overview and Next Steps Sandra Burslem Deputy Chair
- 52. Introduction to the Seminar Sessions Francis Thomas Director of Internal and External Affairs
Editor's Notes
- Good morning ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the British Library – the home of many great documents including the Magna Carta and The Canterbury Tales, and now Ofqual’s 3 rd Chief Regulator’s Report. Since we launched our 2 nd report last year, we have seen many changes; a change in government, the stepping down of our Chair and a new white paper in education and strategy for skills. Many things, however, haven’t changed. We remain committed to regulation, and to the principles of better regulation. We remain under the leadership of a strong board, members of which I am especially pleased to welcome today, and we continue to be fair and open, and to build effective relationships with our stakeholders, including awarding organisations, schools, colleges and higher education. To that end, I am pleased today to also welcome Professor Robert Burgess, Chair of UCAS and vice chancellor of the University of Leicester. We are grateful that Professor Burgess has agreed to speak today to us all about the importance of maintaining the strength of qualifications as tools for progression to higher education. However, before we move into the main body of today’s event, it falls to me to take the role of ‘keeper of the house’. I must inform you that there are no fire drills planned for today, so if you hear the fire alarm, please assume that it is for real and make your way to the nearest emergency exit. I also want to inform you that we are recording today’s event so that we may have a record of today’s presentations here in the main auditorium that we can stream later on, on our website to enable those who have been unable to attend to also be a part of the launch event. We are keen to share today’s event, and the Chief Regulator’s Report itself, with a wide audience. We recognise that this is a time of some change and uncertainty, for designers, deliverers, providers, teachers and learners in education. Our report, as our Chief Executive Isabel Nisbet will talk to you about next, details our principles for regulating during this time and looks at the lessons we have learned in the time since our inception. And without further ado, I introduce to you Isabel Nisbet.
- 47 qualification types currently listed on the UCAS Tariff. We regulate all qualifications in England (except degrees) and vocational qualifications in Northern Ireland. Many of these qualifications have points values on the Tariff. We also work closely with the regulators in Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as in Scotland, to ensure parity of standards between qualifications and over time.
- Equally as we face challenges, we want to challenge you!
- Thank you Sandra, and thank you also to Isabel and to Professor Burgess. I hope that what we have heard this morning has given you plenty to think about, and to consider both in terms of the current situation and our regulatory work, and also how you are working within the education system in today’s context. We have explained to you the principles that we have developed from our position as independent regulator. We have also explained to you lessons that we have learned as we have carried out our work and we have explained how these lessons, and our experiences have shaped our plans for the future. These plans are provided in much more detail in the consultations that we currently have open – and I would encourage you to respond to these consultations so that we can gather your ideas and thoughts about the regulated system of qualifications, and aspects of the system including economic regulation and management of complaints and appeals. Please do speak to us if you are interested in our consultations. But for now, back to the Chief Regulator’s Report. The rest of our event today provides much opportunity for discussion. We will shortly be taking a refreshment break, where I would encourage you to speak with members of our Board and representatives from Ofqual, for whom this report is an important statement of our thinking and our approach to regulation. After the break we will move into our seminar rooms where you will have the opportunity to discuss in detail some of the regulatory principles from our report. I will explain the set up for these seminars shortly. After the seminars, we invite you to join us for lunch; where again we will be happy to talk with you about Ofqual’s work and about the education system in which we all operate. So, to the detail of the seminars. You have been randomly allocated to one of three different groups; yellow, orange and green. You’ll see that you have a small coloured dot on your name badge. Those of you with yellow dots will be taking part in a seminar led by Jeremy Benson, our Director of Strategic Management, in Meeting Room 1. Those of you who have orange dots will be in Meeting Room 2 with our Director of Standards Dennis Opposs. And those of you with green dots will be with our Director of Regulation Fiona Pethick in Meeting Room 4. The seminars will provide you with the opportunity to discuss in detail the key features and issues around the principles that we have presented to you in our Chief Regulator’s Report today. These principles can be found in Chapter 4 of our report. It is important that we understand the issues that are important to those we work with or have regard to in our role as the regulator. I’d encourage you to contribute openly in the groups as it is only by fostering open opportunities to communicate that we can fully understand the system in which we are all working. The discussion groups will provide you with the opportunity to discuss in detail 2 of the 7 principles. Which 2 will be your choice. On entering your seminar room you will see the principles on display individually, and we would ask you to select a principle to discuss and so to head for that principle. Half way through the discussion groups you will be asked to move onto a different principle for discussion. Please do use the refreshment break to think about which of our principles you would like to feedback on. To help further your thinking, we will be looking for the thoughts on three questions; Do you agree that this should be a principle for Ofqual as the regulator - if not why not? What should be the outcome of Ofqual setting this as a principle? What do you think Ofqual or those it regulates needs to do differently if this is a principle for the regulator? As you can see, these are fairly broad questions on the whole, and we hope to hear your views around the principles, their application and potential outcomes. We will be encouraging groups to make notes and these will be collated after this event. These notes will be available, along with the presentations from today, on our website next week. We will also use what we hear in the discussion groups to generate more ideas of how we can work together and how we prompt further debate around the issues important to us all. We will take a refreshment break now – so please take time to have a break and to discuss with your colleagues the issues important to you today. We will move into the seminar rooms directly after the break, and I would ask that you are in your allocated room ready to start at 11.30. I would again like to thank Isabel, Sandra and Professor Burgess for their contributions today and look forward to catching up with some of you over the break. Thank you.