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Career Education & Preparation for Working Life
NOCN Foundation Award for Careers Education and Preparation for Working Life
NOCN Intermediate Award for Careers Education and Preparation for Working Life
This qualification is designed to enable learners to:
1. Understand themselves, their capabilities and to identify career opportunities
2. Investigate career and employment opportunities through their study
3. Understand the context of their own role as employee and citizen and to develop the associated rights and
1. Understand themselves, their capabilities and to identify career opportunities
2. Investigate career and employment opportunities through their study
3. Understand the context of their own role as employee and citizen and to develop the associated rights and
responsibilities that these bring
4. Begin to develop and implement their own career plans
5. Focus on learning about work, learning through work and learning for work
This qualification is designed to support the offer of careers education and work related learning programmes in schools as well as supporting adult learners in a range of learning environments to progress to employment, education and training.
4. Begin to develop and implement their own career plans
5. Focus on learning about work, learning through work and learning for work
This qualification is designed to support the offer of careers education and work related learning programmes in schools as well as supporting adult learners in a range of learning environments to progress to employment, education and training.
To access this qualification input the title on the qualification finder, which is found on the right hand side of this page.
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