UK Youth have developed a learning curriculum that encompasses seven progressive stages of personal development and incorporates ten key personal and social skills. It is these skills that many employers recognise as being the most important attributes when employing staff.
As part of this curriculum UK Youth has developed programmes in both Peer Education and Peer Mentoring which first gained qualification status in 2004. Taking into account the experiences and needs of deliverers and candidates, these programmeshave nowbeen reviewed and rewritten as units that conform to the Qualifications Credit Framework (QCF).
This new qualification developed by UK Youth is intended to meet the needs of young people involved in this aspect of educational development. These qualifications will provide accredited development opportunities for those who become involved in this important area of the lifelong learning sector.
These new qualifications are intended to provide added creditability to peer education and peer mentoring through recognition of the valuable role it plays in non-formal teaching and learning.
The value of peer education and peer mentoring and its role in the personal development of both those who are involved in delivery and those involved as recipients is increasingly recognised by employers. In addition to developing their own skills, knowledge, understanding and practice, those involved in peer education and peer mentoring make an important contribution to the continuous improvement of learning and have a significant impact on achievement.
Launch of UK Youth's Peer Qualifications Programme
The new UK Youth's Peer Qualification Programme will be launched during a series of half day conferences which will include practical examples of good peer education and peer mentoring projects as well as providing practitioners an overview of how UK Youth’s Peer Qualification Programme can help to enhance their programmes. The dates for the conferences are below:
Monday 18th January 2010 - Bristol
Wednesday 20th January 2010 - Birmingham
Tuesday 26th January 2010 - Durham
Wednesday 27th January 2010 - London
Monday 1st February 2010- Liverpool
These launch events are aimed at workers and managers from a range of settings who are involved supporting young people aged 14 plus who are engaged in practical, hands-on peer education and peer mentoring projects in non-formal or formal learning environments.
To book your place on these launch events, please download the booking form below:
There will be some Introduction to the Peer Qualification Training days, a requirement for running the Peer Qualification Programme on the following dates:
Monday 22 February 2010- Taunton
Tuesday 2 March 2010- Liverpool
Thursday 4 March 2010- Durham
Monday 8 March 2010- Leicester
Thursday 11 March 2010- Leicester
