The creative qualifications have been developed alongside experts from the creative industries to focus on practical and progression-focused learning. They provide students with opportunities to enter a broader range of higher education or employment roles.

The qualifications benefit from:

• Reduced admin: qualifications feature four large, simple and holistic teaching modules across the extended diploma with linked assessment units that can be combined into the larger projects

• A progression focus: learner work is generated through practical projects, briefs, workshops and engagement with the industry,  preparing portfolios and materials for progression.

• Flexible assessment points: the open nature of the teaching and learning modules allow centres to ensure students have maximum opportunity to develop and apply their skills and assess them at appropriate times.

• Compensatory grading: reward learners for their exceptional performance in some areas without requiring it in all areas so they won’t be held back by their weakest performance area.