Engage, Inspire, Achieve, Attain:
How the Modern Baccalaureate can future
proof your curriculum with minimal
changes
THE CONTEXT
“This is the era of the subject”
Nick Gibb
“…perverse incentives…”
Michael Gove
THE SOLUTION
Local ownership: school
and/or academy chain logo
QR Code: links to secure transcript of students’ achievements,
including a school reference and evidence of skills and experiences
GRADING THE CORE
ModBac Intermediate (GCSE A*-C, QCF/NQF Level 2, EQF L3)
To be awarded..
A learner will have to gain the following grades...
Best five...
DISTINCTION* Grade A* in English and Maths
...in a best eight of
Grade A GCSEs or equivalent, or with
and 3 others (GCSE or
equivalent)
Level 3 qualifications (AS-Level, CoPE L3,
Vocational etc.)
DISTINCTION
Grade A or above in English and
Maths plus 3 others (GCSE or
equivalent)
Grade B GCSE or equivalent
MERIT
Grade C or above in English and
Maths and 3 others (GCSE or
equivalent)
Grade C GCSE or equivalent
PASS
Grade C or above in five
subjects (GCSE or equivalent)
Level 2 threshold
GRADING THE CORE
ModBac Foundation (GCSE D-G, QCF/NQF Level 1, EQF L2)
To be awarded..
A learner will have to gain the following grades...
Best five...
DISTINCTION* Grade D or above in English and Maths and 3 others
...in a best eight
of
(GCSE or equivalent)
Level 1
qualifications
DISTINCTION
Grade E or above in English and Maths plus 3 others
(GCSE or equivalent)
Level 1
qualifications
MERIT
Grade G or above in English and Maths and 3 others
(GCSE or equivalent)
Level 1
qualifications
PASS
Grade G or above in five subjects (GCSE or
equivalent) Level 1 threshold
GRADING THE CORE
ModBac Entry (QCF/NQF Entry Level, EQF L1)
To be awarded..
A learner will have to gain the following grades...
Criteria
DISTINCTION* 4 or more Entry Quals at Entry 3 ( or above) to include an Entry 3
qualification in English and Maths (Functional Skills or Basic Skills)
DISTINCTION
3 or more Entry Quals at Entry 2 ( or above ) to include English and Maths
(Functional Skills or Basic Skills)
MERIT
2 Entry or more Quals at Entry 1 (including English and/or Maths at Entry 1
(Application) or above (Functional Skills or Basic Skills)
PASS
1 Entry qualification at Entry 1 (inclusive of E1 bottomless P1-3) or above
The Honours Programme
This part of the award is designed to accredit up to seven areas of
experience and achievement, carefully chosen to meet the ModBac
aims and objectives, and delivered within the context of a broad and
balanced personal development curriculum. The seven areas are:
A modern language / internationalism
ICT / Computing
Enterprise / Financial Capability
An extended project
Work Experience or Work- related programme
A personal challenge
A community award
These learning contexts can be externally accredited through a qualification, an approved
provider (DoE, Young Enterprise, SkillForce, etc.), as part of a curriculum programme, inside
or outside the classroom
Grading the Honours Programme at Foundation and Intermediate Level
Not every student has to do every element, and the final gradings will reflect
this (and the importance of external accreditation, as follows:
DISTINCTION*
All 7 elements evidenced in learner transcript (with
at least 4 elements externally accredited or certificated)
DISTINCTION
6 elements evidenced in learner transcript (with at least 3
elements externally accredited or certificated)
MERIT
5 elements evidenced in learner transcript (with at least 2
elements externally accredited or certificated)
PASS
4 elements evidenced in learner transcript (no elements
need external accreditation or certification)
The learner transcript would be clear about which elements (e.g. Personal
Challenge, Languages, etc) have been evidenced.
The Skills Passport
The Skills Passport will be flexible and adaptable to local contexts,
accrediting skills development systems and processes that may already
be highly developed in some schools and academies.
The pupil transcript will report the basic and wider skills students have
acquired, such as:
•ALAN tests (literacy and numeracy)
•Other functional or key skill tests and qualifications
•ASDAN skills-centred qualifications (CoPE, AoPE, CVQ, Employability, etc.)
•RSA “Opening Minds” awards
•PLTS passport
•Building Learning Power
•QCF competence based skills qualifications from Prince’s Trust, Edexcel and
NCFE
A Unique Story behind every Modern Baccalaureate transcript
An extremely able student, possibly
in the top 4% in the countrysecured very high grades in nearly
every GCSE
…however, only a PASS for Honours
programme (Language GCSE
qualification perhaps, but little else
externally accredited). No
community work?
Why has such an able student got
so little to show in terms of
employability skills?
A Unique Story behind every Modern Baccalaureate transcript
Andi Elliott
Andi is a very hardworking young lady and is committed to everything she embarks upon.
Andi has already passed Maths and English in Y10, with good grades, but is now aiming
for A*s. In addition to this she is studying GSCE Biology, Physics and Chemistry. Andi has
also passed NCFE Level 2 Custom Animation as well as a BTEC Level 2 Diploma in Art.
She is also studying GCSE R.E. Chinese and OCR Nationals Level 2 First Award in ICT.
Andi will finish with an Intermediate Level Modern Baccalaureate.
Andi has met the Skills Passport requirements through ASDAN’s AoPE (Award of Personal
Effectiveness), developing and accrediting Team Working, Planning & Reviewing Learning
and Presentation skills based on work experience. Andi has also completed the Level 2
literacy and numeracy ALAN tests. Andi also has also worked with a group of students to set
up and run a Smoothie bar at the Academy, thus, demonstrating team working skills and
entrepreneurial qualities.
Andi enjoys playing music in her spare time and has achieved a grade 3 in drums and a
grade 2 in the violin. She was also involved in the Rock Challenge performance in Y10.
These have contributed to the Personal Challenge. Andi also chosen to study the NCFE
Level 2 Certificate in Enterprise qualification in the Academy’s extended day. Since Andi is
studying Chinese and ICT these will also count towards the Honours section. As Work
Experience was externally accredited through ASDAN (see above), Andi has therefore
already achieved five elements within the Honours section.
A Unique Story behind every Modern Baccalaureate transcript
Andi Elliott
A Unique Story behind every Modern Baccalaureate transcript
Andi Elliott
Modern Baccalaureate
Uniquely branded for your
school, your academy, your
local authority, your federation,
your academy chain
STRATEGIC PARTNERS
ASDAN EDUCATION
• Will use its national network of regional managers and area coordinators to support schools through the Modbac programme
• Will give free resources to support Modbac (Bronze/Silver books
for every registered learner if required, and access to the PLAN-DOREVIEW guided reflection sheets at the heart of skill development)
• Access to theORB new from September, an on-line resource bank
with an abundance of easy-to-use activities designed explicitly to
support the personal development of young people
• Mapping support to show how ASDAN CoPE can be used to
accredit both the HONOURS programme and the SKILLS
PASSPORT
STRATEGIC PARTNERS
IMAGINATIVE MINDS
Every teacher in the school or college becomes a free registered user of
Imaginative Minds’ Professional Learning Community, a bank of over 5000
articles, documents and training materials compiled from five educational
journals covering leadership, Special Needs, Creative Learning and Teaching,
etc.
STRATEGIC PARTNERS
TLM
• Supplying the innovative technologies that enable learners to build
their Modbac portfolio (any time, any place, anywhere), teachers to
validate evidence and the printing/QR Coding of all certificates
• TLM’s ITQ has been accepted as a “High Quality” qualification, and
therefore counts towards 5+ A* to C as an equivalence from 2014
onwards
• Its modular flexibility enables us to deliver a range of IT options,
including industry-standard engineering options
Costs:
An annual centre registration fee of £695 + the cost of registering a
new cohort of learners into the Modbac programme (£15 per
learner*) this works out to 2/3rds of the cost of a GCSE entry per learner!
A one-off fee of £450 in the first year to cover training on the onlineportfolio, teacher's markbook and certification process
*a sliding tariff will operate so that large schools benefit from the economy of
scale £15 a student for new cohorts up to 200, £10 a student for the next
300, thereafter £5 a student
Certificates will be printable by centres locally, on demand, at an
anticipated cost of 30-40p per certificate (one printable certificate per
learner included in the registration price).
• Access to the ModBac framework, and centre approval process;
• A free ASDAN Bronze/Silver curriculum workbook for every
registered learner (if required)
• Free access to ASDAN’s proven suite of guided reflection
proformas, to support the identification, development and
acceditation of personal skills
• Reduced-rate access to TLM’s Ofqual-accredited IT qualification;
• Printable ModBac Certificates (1 per registered learner)- additional
certificates available on demand, at a cost of 30-40p per certificate
• A QR-coded single learner transcript stating clearly the
components completed and the levels reached; the QR on each
certificate will link to a unique transcript containing extra details,
such as qualcodes of individual qualifications, awards, etc
• Full on-line and telephone support throughout the year and
handbook;
• Free access to online audit, portfolio tools and a teacher's
markbook;
• An on line portfolio for every learner, to store evidence of
skills, challenges and qualifications
• A Modern Baccalaureate Centre Approval Certificate
• A system for brokering access to organisations that can help
deliver the Personal Challenge and other elements of the
Honours and Skills programmes;
• A subsidised place at the annual ModBac conference;