Ascentis Level 2 Certificate in Skills for Further Study in Social Science and Humanities

Qualification Overview

This qualification has been designed to help learners develop the essential and transferable knowledge and skills required in order to progress primarily to Level 3 qualifications in the social sciences and humanities.

Aims

The aims of the qualification are to enable learners:

• to progress to further learning
• to develop study skills
• to develop skills and knowledge in the areas of social science and humanities

Target Group

This qualification is for learners who:

• have gaps in their skills or knowledge, perhaps because their schooling was interrupted or disrupted, or because they are returning to study after some time away from formal learning;
• are interested in a career in the social sciences and are not yet ready to access a Level 3 qualification or Apprenticeship;
• need to build the confidence, skills, knowledge and understanding needed to progress on to Level 3
• need to build a foundation of knowledge and understanding in an unfamiliar vocational area.

Assessment

All units are internally assessed through the learner building up a portfolio of evidence that covers the relevant assessment criteria, internally assessed and verified by the centre and then externally verified by Ascentis.