BTEC is Business and Technology Education Council.
BTEC has earned its reputation as the world’s most successful applied learning qualification, providing students with a clear line of sight into work. Encouraging students to take responsibility for their own learning, BTEC develops the practical, interpersonal and thinking skills essential for professional life.
BTECs are developed in consultation with employers and higher education experts, so they can trust that anyone who is BTEC qualified will demonstrate the high standards of knowledge, practical skills and understanding required for further study and employment. Some of the subject areas currently covered are:
Applied Science
Art and Design
Business and Services
Children and Young People
Construction and the Built Environment
Driver Training
Engineering
Hair and Beauty
Health and Social Care
Hospitality, Travel and Tourism
IT
Land-based and Environment
Media
Performing Arts and Music
Public Services and Uniformed Services
Sport
About BTEC in Greensprings School
BTECs are vocational qualifications designed to give students the skills they need to either move on to higher education or go straight into employment. They give teachers the freedom to create a programme that they want to teach and that students will want to learn.
What is vocational learning?
With government, teachers, parents and students, we’ve talked about what vocational learning is and how it supports our young people to progress in their lives through learning.
Here in Greensprings School, we create vocational – or applied learning – qualifications which help students acquire knowledge, skills and understanding through practical, work-related activities in a real-life context so that they can apply what they’ve learned.
When combined with academic learning in a school or college (or as a stand-alone course in further or higher education), vocational learning develops a range of practical knowledge and skills which help learners to prepare for – and progress in – their chosen career.
We offer these BTEC courses:
Business and Services
Hospitality
Art and Design, IT, Sport and other courses will be offered as progress is made…
For further information, please visit the BTEC website www.btec.co.uk
