Unit Award Scheme: Links with AQA qualifications
AQA's unit-based qualifications are:
- Entry Level Certificate (ELC)
- Foundation Certificate in Secondary Education (FCSE)
- QCF Qualifications in Personal and Social Education (PSE)
You can use the Unit Award Scheme to accredit the achievement of individual units in most of AQA's ELC, and all FCSE and PSE specifications.
Students receive a Unit Award Statement (certificate) for each individual unit they complete as they progress through a course of study.
What are the benefits of using the Unit Award Scheme to accredit achievement of individual units?
Students receive prompt formal recognition for the smaller steps of achievement when they complete each individual unit.
This approach can be used:
- as a motivating stepping stone towards achieving a full qualification
- as a way of accrediting the work achieved by students who have not managed to successfully complete enough units to gain the overall qualification.
