Sector Qualifications Strategy - Improve
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The aim of the Sector Qualifications Strategy (SQS) remains the same as was expressed in the first version. It is to develop a flexible and responsive system for recognising achievement and to enable both learners and employers to enhance skills and to boost productivity. The Strategy will encourage workforce development as an integral part of a food or drink manufacturing business' commercial planning activity.
Vision and Principles
The strategy sets the foundation for the development of a flexible and responsive system that will enhance skills and boost productivity at all levels in the Sector’s workforce. The system will:
- increase entry into food and drink
- be capable of crediting competence and will recognise the skills and achievements that employers, employees and learners value
- provide opportunities to access qualifications, training and professional development opportunities at and across all levels
Businesses will benefit from a flexible qualification system that will:
- provide a clear progression route from new entrants to managerial level and will particularly address identified transitional points in employees’ careers
- will allow employers to access bite size chunks of learning
- identify opportunities, not just for vertical progression or development but for horizontal development and growth
One of the ambitions of the Strategy is to develop a system that embraces the mix of qualifications, training and learning and development opportunities that exist at all levels, and is capable of crediting learners with their achievements. A mechanism by which this ambition could be achieved would be through the use of a unit-based framework. This unitised system could also be used to assign credit.
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