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The Welsh Baccalaureate is an overarching qualification that will provide students with a balanced range of experiences.
- Provide students with a wide range of experiences that will equip them for the modern world;
- Be available and accessible to students post-16;
- Be attractive to students, their parents and teachers;
- Safeguard students' interests by being partly based on existing qualifications.
Rationale/Context
The WBQ builds upon the foundations laid in earlier Key Stages of the student's education, and will allow progression into succeeding phases of education and training.
For more information visit the Welsh Baccalaureate website
It has been designed to:
- The aims of the Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification are:
- To widen participation, promote access and encourage completion in post-16 education;
- To promote active citizenship;
- To promote parity of esteem between vocational and academic courses and adopt a vocational approach to learning;
- To enable students of all abilities to progress to further or higher education, training or employment;
- To provide a broad and balanced range of curriculum experiences to post-16 students in Wales;
- To promote learning by doing and the use of new technologies to make learning more effective;
- To promote attitude that will prepare students for lifelong learning.