These qualifications are for staff that are working in, or looking to gain entry to, roles in Assessment and Internal Quality Assurance. They have been developed to replace the Assessor and Verifier Units which expired on 31 December 2010.
The new units and qualifications are for those who carry out assessment and internal quality assurance roles in their organisation. They will provide them with the opportunity to develop and improve their practice as well as achieving a professional qualification for the role. They have been developed for those working in accredited learning, non accredited learning, the NQF and the QCF.
There are assessor awards and a certificate at Level 3, internal quality assurer awards and a certificate at Level 4.
The qualifications consist of a mix of units - some competence-based and some knowledge-based units. The knowledge-only units (which are titled 'Understanding the principles and practices of...’) allow anyone who is interested in, or needs to know about, assessment and quality assurance - but is not a practitioner - to acquire knowledge and information about the roles.
Successful achievers will understand the principles of assessment and internal quality assurance and have the knowledge to develop and improve systems at their centre.
These qualifications will eventually be part of a full framework of qualifications for trainers, assessors and quality assurance personnel.
For further information, please contact Chris Newton at cnewton@bca.ac.uk or call 01628 827464.
