The city and guilds teaching certificate is called PTLLS. These days, in order to take this qualification and use it to teach you are supposed to be qualified in the subject that you intend to teach.
My understanding is that the city and guilds for lacemaking is no longer run as as this was the only qualification in the UK you end up with a circular issue. You want to be qualified to teach lace but you can't gain a qualification at the right level to take the teaching qualification. However, if you are qualified with PTLLS you can apply to any of the awarding bodies to deliver a qualification in lacemaking so long as you are an accreditation centre or attached to an accredited centre. That, of course, costs money. Then to deliver the accreditation course that you set up you need to pay for an IV (internal verifier) to verify that you are delivering to standard. Following that, sample models from each learner are checked by an outside auditor from the qualifying body to check that standard are being met. This all has to be delivered in a timely manner. So, you can see why as numbers applying for the city and guilds lacemaking dropped it stopped being viable to continue with the formal qualification. http://www.cityandguilds.com/qualifications-and-apprenticeships/learning/teaching/6302-preparing-to-teach-in-the-lifelong-learning-sector-ptlls#tab=information You could argue that if you have received certification from the lace guild for completing their assessments that this would give you the technical qualification to take PTLLS but because it is not delivered to OfQual standards it is not recognised. Catch 22. In the past, colleges would let you teach lace if you had PTLLS but not a lace qualification as they believed that if you could demonstrate a reasonable standard in lacemaking and had learnt to teach you could combine the two. Something which this debate here has borne out. L Sent from my iPad > On 24 Aug 2014, at 20:55, Celia Mulhearn <po...@me.com> wrote: > > So - maybe the City and Guilds teaching certificates could be more widely > advertised - I certainly enjoyed the experience of the courses, and I am sure > I learned a very great deal too. > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
