Jeremy Benson is Executive Director for Vocational Qualifications at Ofqual. He has previously worked at the Department for Education and De Montfort University.
A few weeks ago we reminded awarding organisations that they must justify the sizes allocated to many of their qualifications by the end of June. There’s been some discussion of what this means and why we’re doing it, so here …
Vocational 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 …
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.
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 we’ve done is to outline more clearly our approach to …
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 …
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