AGCE

Applied General Certificate of Education (AGCE) is a vocational qualification that replaced the

AVCE Vocational Certificate of Education, usually shortened to VCE or Vocational A-Level or AVCE, was a vocational qualification that used to be available in further education colleges and sixth forms in the United Kingdom. Subjects and assessment VCEs ...

in September 2005. The modular structure of each course available is also different from that of the

. This course is available through many subjects that was once run under the

for example,

Information and Communication Technology Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications ( telephone lines and wireless signals) and computer ...

and

Health and Social Care Health and Social Care (often abbreviated to ''HSC'' or ''H&SC'') is a term that relates to services that are available from health and social care providers in the UK. This is a generic term used to refer to the whole of the healthcare provision ...

. The name for an Applied GCE in a particular subject, for example, would be "GCE A-level in Applied ICT". The course is available in many schools and further education colleges and comes as three different forms - AS GCE, AGCE Single Award and AGCE Double Award. School qualifications Educational qualifications in the United Kingdom {{US-edu-stub