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Completing an Extended Project Qualification can provide UCAS points, and some prestigious universities may even offer reduced entry requirements as a result. It is an excellent way to enhance your academic profile, giving you an additional talking point for university interviews. By undertaking an Extended Project Qualification, you will embark on a challenging and rewarding journey. This experience will not only make you the resident expert in your chosen field, but also equip you with a wide range of skills that are highly valued in higher education and the workplace.
College entry
Assessment for the Extended Project Qualification is entirely coursework based. You will submit a ‘product’ alongside evidence of your research and planning. Your final grade will reflect not only the quality of your product but, more importantly, your abilities in planning, time management, research, and presentation.
At the beginning of the course, you will be taught the skills you need to successfully complete the project. As the course progresses, you will have a series of one-to-one meetings with your teacher and will work independently during lessons. You must be willing to work independently, possess good time management skills, and have the drive and motivation to complete the project with minimal support.
The Extended Project Qualification promotes independent study and requires you to:
• Be self-motivated and manage your own time effectively.
• Develop critical thinking, reflection, and independence in your learning.
• Enhance your decision-making and problem-solving abilities.
• Strengthen your planning, research, analytical, evaluative and presentation skills.
• Demonstrate creativity, initiative, and enterprise.
Our Elective Programme is designed to help you develop your gifts and interests as part of an enhanced level 3 programme. We will help you realise your potential by nurturing your talent and preparing you for study at the most prestigious universities or for progression to competitive higher-level apprenticeships. Your options range from our Honours Programme, which might include following a fourth A level, to specialist Futures Programmes that will support your career goals.
If you’re not quite ready to start on a Level 3 Technical course (T Levels) or a Vocational Level 3 course (BTEC) but want to begin on the path to your chosen career, the Transition Programme could be for you.
Transition Programmes are tailored to prepare students to move onto Technical or Vocational Level 3 study. They will give you the opportunity to improve your English and Maths, your work readiness skills and introduce you to the technical skills and concepts that you will need for future study and employment.
As part of the Transition Programme you will study a BTEC Level 2 Award in your chosen subject area as well as the BTEC Level 2 Extended Award in Work Skills. You will also have the opportunity to resit GCSE English and/or Maths if you have not yet achieved a grade 4.
Entry criteria for Transition Programmes is four grade 3s including grade 3s in English Language and Maths GCSE.