New Ofqual Regulations: Managing your Awarding Organisation & Reducing Bureaucracy (5364)

Opening Remarks and Objectives

By the end of this event, you will be able to:

• Explain the strategic role of Ofqual and the responsibilities of awarding organisations
• State key changes and implications of the new regulations
• Know what expertise and/or qualifications your staff may need
• Review your organisation’s assessment and QA processes
• Rationalise your current documentation.

Understanding how the QCF changes practice

• Learning outcomes and assessment criteria
• Learning domains and taxonomies
• RPL and Credit Transfer – how it affects funding and practice
• Holistic delivery of units and efficient use of guided learning hours (GLH)

The role of Ofqual and the new regulations

• Ofqual’s remit
• Awarding organisations and their centres - how things have changed 

Assessment and quality assurance

• Bringing assessors and IQAs up-to-date
• Who needs which qualification?
• How PTLLS and CTLLS now contain the assessor and IQA qualifications. What this means for your organisation and staff.

Managing your Awarding Organisation

• What you should expect from your External Quality Assurer
• The standards they must work to

Making sure you are QCF compliant

• What to do next