Entry To Employment

The Network work with the Learning and Skills Council to explore how Awards might enhance Entry to Employment (E2E), a programme on the work-based learning route aimed at 16-18 year olds.

Eight members of the Network delivered their awards with E2E providers within eight local LSCs between August 2003 and July 2005. The NYA carried out research exploring the impact of Awards and accrediting achievement on young people’s learning on E2E.

During the pilot, over 70 delivery centres used non-formal Awards as part of their E2E provision, involving over 2400 young people, and 1199 Awards or part-Awards were accredited.

The final report, “The positive contribution of non-formal Awards to learning” was published in September 2005. In summary:

• Non-formal Awards provide a framework for the delivery and accreditation of personal and social development (PSD) that is broadly welcomed by practitioners and young people.
• The benefits of accrediting young people’s achievements include improving their motivation, enhancing the status of PSD, and recording achievement (linked to ‘distance travelled’).
• Awards had as positive impact on learners’ PSD. The vast majority of providers found that the Awards improved learners’ development of eleven specific skills, including recognising their own development, group working skills, self-esteem, problem solving, and communication skills.
• Awards can also be used to enhance the delivery, and learners’ development, of basic, key and vocational skills.
• Awards can improve young people’s chances of moving on to a positive destination, such as further education, training, or employment.

Download the report in PDF:

The positive contribution of non-formal Awards to learning - Final Report (Sept 2004)

Or copies are available in hard copy on request from The NYA (please call 0116 242 7414 for hard copies).

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