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 Gateway
offers structured workplace learning opportunities to senior students.
The Gateway programme is about students completing a work placement and
having their learning in the workplace assessed against unit standards
on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) and integrated with their
current programme of study. It is not a work experience programme or a
programme for under-achievers.
Gateway
is an initiative designed to strengthen the pathway for students from
school to workplace learning. Hon Steve Maharey, Minister of Tertiary
Education has announced an expansion programme saying “Gateway offers
students new learning choices and new opportunities to begin nationally
recognised qualifications. For example students looking to “go into”
the glass industry will be able to start a career pathway while they are
still at school.
Workplace
learning is a formalized learning arrangement set in an actual workplace
with clear understandings about the knowledge and skills to be attained
and the assessment of unit standards. It differs from work experience
which tends to be designed to give students a taste of different occupations,
to help them in career planning.
Gateway
builds on existing partnerships to develop new relationships between schools
and Industry Training Organisation (ITO) and employers. This approach
dovetails with the Governments developments of the Modern Apprenticeships
initiative.
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Glazing
Industry Training
