Diploma Delivery Gateway
Schools, colleges and others will be expected to deliver
Diplomas as part of collaborative local partnerships, known as
consortia.
Local partnerships who are interested in offering Diplomas need
to pass through a Gateway which will assess their readiness to
deliver. Consortia which have not yet successfully gone
through Gateway can apply before 3 December 2007 or,
if they do not yet feel ready, in future years.
To find out what evidence of readiness to teach the Diploma
in Engineering we will be looking for in the second Gateway
processes download the guidance for a strong application to
teach the Diploma in
Engineering. You sould also
refer to the wider guidance on complete Gateway
applications in the DCSF Diploma
Gateway Guidance.
First teaching of the Diploma in Engineering will start in 2008.
More than 60 consortia who submitted strong Gateway
applications are expected to being teaching the Diploma in
Engineering. A further 58 consortia are being given longer to
prepare and invited to teach the Diploma from September
2009.
Quality is a priority for Diploma delivery. Only those
consortia who demonstrated they were able to provide high quality
delivery across all the criteria from September 2008 have been
given a green light to prepare for teaching the new qualification
next year.
More detailed information on the Gateway, can be found by
following the links below.
Information about successful
consortia who will be teaching the Engineering Diploma in
Sept 2008
Information for successful consortia
who will be teaching the Engineering Diploma
Information for consortia who have not yet
successfully passed through the Gateway.