FAQs

The Level 3 Qualification in Leading a Project for Positive Change achieves 8 UCAS points (equivalent to half an E grade at A-Level). It contributes to a students points tariff and may be used towards their overall points, it could be the culminating difference to achieving their points requirement for a course.

Yes. Universities will accept all points associated with any academic and vocational qualification. The 8 UCAS points will be added to the cumulative total achieved by the student to ensure they reach the minimum points requirement for their chosen degree course.

Yes. A student requires the minimum entry points to be given an offer for their chosen university. The 8 UCAS points can be the difference between a B grade to an A grade.

The Level 3 Qualification has been designed to encourage independent learning from the students undertaking the programme, as it is a project-based social action qualification. Therefore, the guided learning hours have been prescribed at 10 hours, to allow the tutor to facilitate the learning and complete the assessment process. This is for the average student to complete using the elearning provided.For a traditional or hybrid approach to delivery, the guided learning hours will increase to approximately 20 hours.

Assessment and observation time has been incorporated into the 10 guided learning hours, if you were to offer the qualification as an independent learning project. Please allow up to a further 10 hours for traditional tutor-led or a hybrid approach to teaching the programme's content. We have provided some PowerPoints to support this approach to the tutoring the Environment Leaders Programme as well.

All resources have been created and provided to support the delivery of the qualification to reduce the need to create your own learning materials. We recommend that you allocate 2-3 hours, in total, to cover the administration of the course, develop your course plan and meet with your Internal Verifier prior to and post-course delivery.

The duration of your course is completely flexible and will be dependant on whether you can get the programme on your curriculum timetable or as an enrichment offer.For all regulated leadership qualifications, you have up to three years to certificate your learners. We suggest that the Level 3 qualification can be delivered successfully within an academic year, but you have the flexibility to deliver over a longer time period, if required.

The qualification has been designed to encourage independent learning from the students that undertake the course, allowing the tutor to facilitate. The eLearning programme provides the students with the foundational knowledge and understanding of the leadership skills they'll be developing throughout the programme and provide a greater depth understanding of the climate and environmental issues, that they may have a personal passion for. The delivery resources provided complement the eLearning and we have provided learner-facing PowerPoints, if you prefer to deliver in a more tutor-led approach.

Learner's will complete the Learner Evidence Record (LER), the relevant parts of the LER have been provided alongside each unit of the qualification. These are available in editable pdf and electronic versions.

Learners should be supported to challenge themselves to meet the minimum actions required, as outlined in the specification. If this is not achievable a lower level qualification such as the Level 2 Qualification in Leadership Skills should be considered.

Although we provide resources for you and your learners to use to complete the course, the use of these in the form they are provided is not mandatory. As the person that understands the learning needs of your learners, you can adapt the delivery of the course content to ensure all learners have an equitable opportunity to learn. For the assessment of your learners all we ask is that you let us know how you would like to adapt your learners' access to assessment by following the Reasonable Adjustments Policy on our website.

Please refer to our Special Considerations Policy for guidance relating to all scenarios outside of a learner's control that might prevent them completing the qualification. It may be that a special consideration for parts of the assessment can be given in lieu of them being able to complete it.

Tutors delivering the qualification will be able to attend a virtual CPD session at the beginning of the academic year, and will receive a copy of the training recording to refer back to as and when required. We also provide three eLearning modules to support staff delivering the following roles: Tutor, Centre Manager and Internal Verifier. These modules take approx. 30-45-minutes to complete and are free to access.A member of the Leadership Skills Foundation will also be on hand to answer any questions and to support throughout the duration of your course delivery.

The qualification includes a mix of theory and competence based criteria. For the theory elements, learners must provide evidence that they understand relevant concepts and information. They will do this by providing written, spoken or other forms of evidence in or alongside their learner evidence record. The tutor will assess if this evidence meets the minimum requirements, set out in the qualification specification. For the practically-based aspects of the course, the tutor will complete written observations to provide evidence of that the learner said and did. Support for tutors and learners regarding assessment requirements and levels of evidence expected can be found in the tutor and learner assessment guidance documents provided.

A member of the Leadership Skills Foundation will provide you with a learner import sheet, to capture the details of the students to enrol them on our Moodle platform. Details required are their full name, date of birth and email address. The import sheet must be returned to the Leadership Skills Foundation to complete the enrolment. Once enrolled onto Moodle, they will receive their log in credentials from moodle@leadershipskillsfoundation.org where they can log on to complete the eLearning. Please visit our policies page for our data sharing agreement.

The tutor or a witness will complete the observation form in the LER to confirm the learner has achieved the minimum required standards.

Projects should have an environmental focus. This could be around sustainability, tackling climate change or improving biodiversity for example. They must involve other people but can be face to face or an online/digital campaign. For more guidance please see the project advice sheet.

The partnership has given access to expertise in nature and environment education from RSPB and WWF. This has informed the co-creation of the ELP and enables the educational resources that have been created throughout their rich heritage of activities to be accessed as required as part of the programme and these are sign posted throughout. Both organisations also have a wealth of additional resources that are associated with current and past initiatives and available on their websites. In addition the ELP resources benefit from their cutting edge conservation science knowledge and practice.