New qualifications for teachers Qualification routes to the award of instructor, tutor and trainer role profiles are represented below PTLLS,CTLLS Preparing to teach Planning/Enabling learning Principles/ practice of assessment Promote equality/value diversity Coaching/mentoring Evaluating learning Specialist delivery techniques The department for education and skills and its partners are exploring the potential for basic and key skill to be merged in the future. The move is understood to be in response to requests from the field. a new two year project to plan their convergence is one of the sevn new skills for life contrcats put to tender by the adults basic skills strategy unit in april 2004.. Basic skills consists of adult literacy and numeracy. The welsh baccalaureate is an exciting qualification for students in wales that adds valuable new dimension to the subjects and courses already available for 14 - 19 year old students Sterotypes are understood to be different things to different people. Durkin 1995 describes then as being based on extreme characteristices attributed to the group with usually negative values attached to that group. Sprafkin and Liebert 1998 added that a stereotype is applied, whenever a group is depicted or portrayed in such a way that all its members appear to have the same characteristics, attitudes of life conditions.