When size does matter…
...not new. However, since October 2015 we have asked for size to be defined by Total Qualification Time (TQT) and the number of Guided Learning hours (GLH). TQT includes all...
Jeremy Benson
Jeremy Benson is Executive Director for Vocational Qualifications at Ofqual. He has previously worked at the Department for Education and De Montfort University.
Regulating apprenticeship end-point assessments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qmefo3cvJIVocational Qualifications team at Annual Apprenticeships Conference On 17 March Bryan Horne, Associate Director of Standards for Vocational Qualifications and Apprenticeships and I, ran a workshop on end point assessment in apprenticeships at FE Week’s Annual Apprenticeship Conference (AAC), at the …
Explaining the RQF
Today the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) is officially launched. The framework should help people understand all the qualifications we regulate, general and vocational in England, and vocational in Northern Ireland, and how they relate to each other.
Regulating for valid vocational qualifications
It is some time since I last blogged; a lot has happened since then and I want to update you on some of the work we've been doing. One thing...
An introduction to our new approach to regulating vocational qualifications
I'm Jeremy Benson, Executive Director for Vocational Qualifications (VQs) at Ofqual, the qualifications regulator for Northern Ireland and England. I’ll be blogging about our new approach to regulating VQs as it develops, and about our work and the issues we're …