Getting the best from the QCF for employers and learners

How do you make sure that the only vocational qualifications in the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) are those required by employers? And (at the same time) open up choice to learners, making the new qualifications much more flexible?

Credit Works understands how to get the best from the QCF.

Since 2006 we have helped many Sector Organisations using our Process Map methdology to design in the flexibility wanted by employers and learners to new QCF qualifications. And we have the capacity to do this quickly and effectively. In three months in 2010, for Creative and Cultural Skills Sector Skills Council, we wrote 13 new vocational qualifications for people working in Creative Industries – in design, in working in the music business, in theatre lighting and costume and wardrobe, in venue operations and community arts administration. In 2010, (for the Skills Funding Agency) we also designed new qualifications for Skills Advisers and Skills Brokers; those people that help employers make the right choice of learning provider and provision for their businesses.This work continually reveals how important it is for employers and their representatives to be directly involved in qualification design.

Try using the Process Map to plan design of your units and qualifications or to check you have covered all the possibilities.

Read about our approach and some of the resources we developed along the way - Getting the best from the QCF: Final report on the support and capacity building programme for UK Sector Skills Councils and Standard Setting Bodies, for the development of units and qualifications as part of the VQ reform programme (including QCF) and the alignment of priority qualifications with public funding. July 2009

Support the development of fast-track qualifications into the QCF as part of the VQ reform programme and the alignment of priority qualifications with public funding. April 2008 Full Report Executive Summary

Credit Works, Research to identify credit developments and their implications for sector bodies. QCA October 2006 (Summary of Key Outcomes)

Credit Works has an unrivalled breadth and depth of understanding of what works to support the reform of qualifications and learning in the UK and beyond. Credit Works Directors are Carole Stott and Finbar Lillis. We offer a “hands on”, efficient service and excellent value for money. One Director oversees each project. Our associates are highly experienced in their fields and we work directly with them. We are leading UK experts on the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) and are especially interested in helping users to get the best from the QCF - exploiting its potential to the full.

Getting the best from the QCF for employers and learners

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