NVQs from Qualitrain

Introduction

Currently subject to the implementation of the new Qualifications and Credit Framework, NVQs remain familiar throughout industry as the backbone of many successful training programmes.


What are NVQs?
 
National Vocational Qualifications recognise what a competent person is able to do at work and provide an accepted format by which training progress can be measured and judged and trainees rewarded for their efforts and specific successes. They involve the skills and knowledge needed to carry out the work, the ability to organise, and the ability to identify and prevent problems.
 
NVQs are based on national occupational standards, which must be met to establish competence in a particular task (competence is understood to involve both being able to do something and understanding why it is done that way). NVQs, then, are not about training to do something – they are about doing it. Competence comes after the training and practise, and indicates the actual ability and skills of the candidate, not the potential. There is no requirement for candidates to go to college or to sit exams, since assessment is usually carried out in the workplace. Indeed, NVQs are noted for their flexibility – for instance, a candidate doesn’t have to start at Level 1 but is able to begin at the level appropriate to their job and existing abilities.
 
The achievement of NVQs has been seen to encourage employees to value their contribution to the workplace, and to develop their own skills and potential. Each qualification is made up of a number of nationally recognised units which we term ‘assessment routes’. These documents allow both the candidate and the assessor to record progress through the qualification. The assessment routes contain the performance to be assessed, the knowledge to be assessed, and the evidence required from the candidate to demonstrate their competence.
 
The NVQ is gained when all the assessment routes have been achieved. The centre will then be able to apply for the candidate's EAL NVQ certificate. The candidate will also receive a Certificate of Unit Credit, listing all the assessment routes they have achieved. Even if they don’t manage to complete the full qualification candidates can still claim a Certificate of Unit Credit for the assessment routes achieved, and so still have proof of their ability and could complete the NVQ/SVQ at a later date, however, Qualitrain’s record of success for completion of NVQs is exemplary, and indeed award-winning.
 

NVQs offered by Qualitrain
 
Business Improvement Training (Process) – Levels 2, 3 and 4
 
Business Improvement Training (Quality) – Levels 2, 3 and 4
 
 
Performing Engineering Operations – Level 2