Promoting Quality in Open and Distance Learning

15th June 2001

Other qualification related sites include:
The Learning and Skills Council www.lsc.gov.uk
Try also "British Qualifications", published by www.kogan-page.co.uk which lists the lot! (Think this only comes as a book though)

Thinking once again about qualifications, I went to look at the site of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.

The site is heavily weighted towards the work that QCA does in establishing the school-age curriculum.

I did find a page describing how QCA is working with its counterparts in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to develop a "coherent and transparent" national qualifications framework, which can only be for the good.

A link from this page takes you to information about the National Childcare Strategy and a page which I think was showing qualifications necessary for various jobs, and their equivalents. Unfortunately the various sections of the table weren't labelled, so I can't be sure.

Under "Accreditation Criteria and Process", information is also available on aims of the new framework (including lifelong learning) and on how qualifications can be considered for admission to the framework.