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Fact File

What's New?

Specification
Key Facts

GCSE
Business and
Communications
Systems

• Emphasises practical ICT skills that enhance business activity
• Develops the skills that are useful in a range of employment roles
• Reflects the ways in which market environments are changing because of ICT
• First assessment summer 2010

GCSE
Journalism in the Media
and Communications
Industry (JMC)

• Designed to enable students to develop and experience the world of journalism
and to support their learning in Employability and Citizenship
• Single tier of entry in which the controlled assessments account for 60% of the
total marks
• Emphasises the practical, applied and explicitly work-related nature of
journalism
• Students research, plan, construct and evaluate media texts, enabling them to
have motivating and enjoyable experiences of JMC
• First assessment summer 2010
GCSE
Moving Image Arts		 • Develops an understanding of film language in both theory and practice
• Emphasises ideas through investigating and experimenting with film-making
techniques and processes
• Fosters the ability to manage resources and equipment in relation to film
production and to produce moving image artworks
• Develops technical competence in the use of film-making techniques and skills
in evaluating their own practice
• Uses new digital technologies and creative learning possibilities, including
online examination opportunities
• Uses an e-portfolio for submission of controlled assessment tasks, which
improves support for both students and teachers
• First assessment summer 2010

 

What's on Hold?

Specification
Key Facts

GCSE Applied Art and Design

We have recently started developing the new specification. Check dates on the Art and Design microsite for our consultations, so that you can have your say.

GCSE B iology
GCSE Chemistry
GCSE P hysics
GCSE Double Award Science

We are currently engaging with the science community to explore
how controlled assessment may be introduced. We await definitive QCA guidance on this.