A level choices for Art-Edexcel

[Dutchhouse14]

Im hoping I can find someone here who will be able to help me - also posted on Education before I realised there was a separate secondary education board.

DD is out of school and has an Education Otherwise than at school (EOTAS) package provided by the local authority – basically the LA pay for home tutoring, so I am unable to ask this question in a school...
She wants to go to university and study Art and is looking at Alevel choices.
She is currently doing Edexcel Art and Design Alevel following the Fine Art modules.
She would like to do an Alevel in photography, but if she did the Edxecl Art and design Alevel twice- once following the fine art modules and once following the photography modules do universities consider this 2 separate Alevels? Would the certificates both just say Art and Design?
Edexcel is the only exam board the tutoring company that the LA funds use.
Hoping there are some Art teachers on here that would know:)

Not an art teacher but DD can take both.

I am not sure about the certificate, but they have different course codes, so I presume they are differentiated.

I used to teach Art. I think she would be allowed to do both.

l know they could definitely take 2

The certificates would say Art and Design ( fine art) etc.

Brst people to help is Ed excell. Contact them. They’re helpful.

There is something called a forbidden combination (!) buy l don’t think it applies in this case.

Thank you everyone
I had already emailed edexcel but no reply yet.
concerned that as Edexcel doesn't list them separately but they both come under the Alevel Art and Design curriculm just different pathways/ module options it would look like she'd taken the same ALevel twice and employers or uni would think it's just a duplication and discount one of them as on the certificates ALevel-Art and design would appear twice.

The DfE uses what are called discount codes to work out if a qualification should be discounted because a candidate has sat 2 or more related subjects. Educational institutions often work on the same basis.

The photography qualification has a different discount code to the fine art qualification so they are counted as 2 different qualifications. You can see from this edexcel link the A level fine art and photography routes have different discount codes - 3690 and 3570 respectively.

But we had an issue with a ‘forbidden combination’ even though the codes were different.

One kid wanted to to Resistant Material A level and Graphic products A level both different codes. But because both courses had a lot of material science that was identical it was a forbidden combination.

As long as the op’s daughter isn’t doing broad art which could involve photography it should be ok.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow are you sure you don’t mean subject/course codes? 2 can have different course/subject codes even if the discount codes are the same. If they have different discount codes they shouldn’t be discounted/forbidden because they have been judged to be sufficiently different.

Oooh not sure😬it was a bit ago.

They were the same exam board.

Thank you so much @ArseInTheCoOpWindowand@perpetualplatespinning
That's all really helpful :)