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Overview

Our Design and Technology Entry Level qualification is being redesigned for first teaching in September 2010. It will sit with the new GCSEs in Design and Technology, enabling us to offer you a coherent package for you and your learners.

Our exciting new Entry Level Design and Technology is carefully planned to be inspiring, motivating and challenging. It contains fresh and up-to-date content, enabling you to engage learners and bring the subject to life.

Benefits

• The qualification encourages and enables learners to actively engage in the processes of Design and Technology, in order to develop skills as effective and increasingly independent learners.
• Learner will have the opportunity to combine skills with knowledge and understanding to design and make quality products.
• Learners will also explore ways in which technical, aesthetic, economic, environmental, ethical and social dimensions interact and influence the designing and making process.
• Learners will have an opportunity to develop decision-making skills, and an understanding of how the design, making and use of products reflect and influence cultures, societies and lifestyle.
• Learners can also develop skills of creativity, good design, making and evaluation through linking good design, existing solutions and technological knowledge.
• You can be more involved than at GCSE – to enable your learners to access the specification content and to produce a portfolio that will form 100% of the total assessment. 
• This qualification is closely related to our GCSE specifications of the same name in the Innovator Suite and also to GCSE Product Design.
• There's an opportunity for learners to progress to GCSE during or after their Entry Level course of study. They can also transfer from GCSE to Entry Level where circumstances require it.