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Skills Challenge Certificate (Advanced)

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The Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (SCC) will help you develop more complex skills, attributes and behaviours enabling you to be better prepared for your future destination, whether university, further training or employment.

The SCC will enable you to ‘plan, do and review’ as you gain and apply a range of transferable skills in different settings and contexts including: planning and carrying out activities, reviewing outcomes as well as your own progress and development.


Start

This may be part of your full-time Level 3 course


Level

Level 3 (equivalent to A Level)

This Skills Challenge Certificate will help you to develop a whole range of core skills:

What will you study?

50%

Individual project

15%

Community challenge

20%

Enterprise and employability challenge

15%

Global citizenship challenge

Individual Project

This is your opportunity to select a topic area that is complex in nature, inspires you and can benefit future applications and interviews. Explore an issue in more depth than is provided in other areas of study.

Carrying out multi-faceted research will develop further your understanding of the topic and allow you to come to an evidence-based conclusion.

Community Challenge

In this challenge, you will need to select a local, national or international community who you wish to support for 30 hours over at least a 4 week period. Your community activity must benefit the community and could be through one of many options.

Enterprise and Employability Challenge

This challenge allows you to explore opportunities, create original ideas and achieve realistic outcomes to enhance your enterprising skills whilst having a taste of the world of work.

You will devise your pathway to employment and independent living by becoming more self-aware through realistically and clearly identifying: Where I am now, where I want to be, and how do I get there?

Global Citizenship Challenge

This challenge allows you to understand complex issues the world faces, applying and deepening your knowledge by considering facts, ideas and opinions. Express your ideas by designing and delivering your solution to an audience.

Want to go on to university after college?

UCAS Tariff points convert your qualifications and grades into a numerical value. Many qualifications have a UCAS Tariff value, and these will vary dependent on the qualification size, and the grade you achieved.

How are they used?

Some universities and colleges refer to UCAS Tariff points in their course entry requirements, but this doesn’t mean they won’t consider qualifications which don’t appear on the Tariff. Make sure you check the course entry requirements carefully!

All Welsh universities will include the Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate in their offers!

The Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate carries the following UCAS points:

Cardiff University accepts the Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (Welsh Baccalaureate (WBQ) Advanced Diploma) for admission to all of its undergraduate degree programmes and the Welsh Baccalaureate Diploma Core will be accepted as equivalent to A Level.

Cardiff University

The Skills Challenge Certificate (Welsh Baccalaureate) is unusual as a qualification whose content is in large part led by students themselves. We enormously value the self-motivation, curiosity and independent-mindedness this approach to learning develops. It is these characteristics, along with three excellent A Levels, that we look for at competitive universities like Oxford.

Jesus College, Oxford

We welcome applications offering the Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (Welsh Baccalaureate), and recognise the valuable skills developed by studying for this qualification.

Bristol University

The University welcomes and recognises the value of the Advanced Welsh Skills Challenge Certificate (Advanced Welsh Baccalaureate) and usually requires two A Levels to be included within this.

Manchester University

Find out more about the Skills Challenge Certificate

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