Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 9 November 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills whether the Skills Funding Agency plans to provide funding for the Business Improvement Techniques NVQ in each of the next three years.
Since 2008 sector skills councils and awarding organisations have been preparing qualifications for the new Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF). The QCF is being developed as part of the wider reform of vocational qualifications and allows vocational qualifications to be designed using the latest and most up-to-date employment standards, with active input from employers through their skills councils.
SEMTA, the Skills Council for Engineering, has redeveloped the previous NVQ in Business Improvement Techniques for the QCF, and following the review against Skills Funding Agency public funding guidelines, the new QCF NVQ Business Improvement Techniques has been confirmed for funding by the Skills Funding Agency for this academic year.
However the agency has raised concerns at the size of the QCF qualifications and their assessment strategy and what this would mean for learners and providers. Colleagues in Scotland have also raised similar concerns.
On this basis, the agency has agreed to fund the Business Improvement Techniques to
By January 2011 the agency will be able to assess the feedback received, and also take account of the work which the UK Commission for Employment and Skills has been doing with SEMTA with regard to robustness of their process for vocational qualification reform. At this point the agency will then confirm future funding arrangements for this qualification.
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