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Quality Assurance

Overview of Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance is a set of processes and procedures we have in place to ensure that students completing our qualifications are issued a fair grade based on their performance. 

We’ve put together a selection of guides to help you understand these processes for each of our qualifications.

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Quality assurance procedures are in place throughout every stage of the exam cycle from the recruitment and training of examiners through to issuing certificates.

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Everything related to UK vocational quality assurance can now be accessed via our dedicated quality assurance webpages. 

Home of Quality Assurance

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See the Functional Skills information on the OSCA (Online Support for Centre Assessors) page.

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For Quality Assurance guidance for ESOL QCF and NQF, see the Quality Assurance Handbooks in the course materials for ESOL.

Please refer to the Quality Assurance Guide for Skilled for Life.

You'll find the Core Skills Quality Assurance handbook in the course materials for each subject.

You'll find the Quality Assurance Handbook in the course materials for each subject - for example, Communication.

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