"Young and creative minds offer so much to employers, businesses, charities, and other organisations. Engaging with young people throughout their education and supporting their progression into the workplace (or volunteering) is a great way to bring new ideas into an organisation, and to support young people in learning the key skills needed for the workplace."
Michael Dunn Royal Life Saving Society UK
"We see the Welsh Bacc as a great opportunity to support the transition of students from the educational environment to the world of work. It is an ideal vehicle for our outreach policy to raise awareness of the organisation and the importance and relevancy of statistical data in students' day to day lives and in their future ambitions. The Welsh Bacc enables us to access a younger audience whilst ensuring that they and their educators also benefit from the various support we can offer in broadening their education and enhancing the delivery of the Welsh Bacc”
Kate Roberts Office for National Statistics
“The Skills Challenge Certificate (Welsh Baccalaureate) is unusual as a qualification whose content is in large part led by students themselves. We enormously value the self-motivation, curiosity and independent-mindedness this approach to learning develops. It is these characteristics, along with three excellent A-levels, that we look for at competitive universities like Oxford.”
Dr Matthew Williams, Access and Career Development Fellow - Jesus College, Oxford
All Welsh Universities will include the Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate in their offers.
Most other universities and most courses within universities also accept the SCC. Even the most competitive courses such as Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Science will accept it as an alternative to an A level grade.
e.g. Medicine – Cardiff, Exeter, Leicester, Manchester, Plymouth, Southampton
Veterinary Science/Medicine – Bristol, Liverpool, Nottingham
Dentistry – Bristol, Cardiff
Offers for other courses can take on the following formats:
- Accepted in a 3 grade offer as an alternative to an A level or vocational qualification. e.g. Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Exeter, Lancaster, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, LSE, Loughborough, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield, Southampton, UCL, York
- Accepted as fourth grade (B or C) alongside a reduced 3 grade offer. e.g. Bath, Warwick
- Accepted in tariff points offer. e.g Brighton, Chester, Edge Hill, Harper Adams, Hull, Liverpool John Moores, Manchester Met, Oxford Brookes, Plymouth, UWE
Oxford and Cambridge Universities may take a different approach as in their consideration of assessment for admission, they assess applicants holistically. Students are encouraged to draw upon relevant SCC experiences when writing their personal statement and should refer to them at interview, even taking a copy of their Individual Project with them. Generally the SCC is not included in their 3 A level grade offers, however, it may be used as part of an offer.
