Employers' needs

The UK government's skills agenda is to improve skills, thereby increasing employee productivity and output, and improving social equality and equity. To achieve these objectives, a range of reforms are ensuring that the whole skills system is driven by employers' and learners' needs.

A key change within the UKVQRP is to develop vocational qualifications which will meet employers needs'. This will be achieved by:

• Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) researching employers needs' and capturing them in Sector Qualification Strategies (SQS)
• SSCs working with awarding organisations to develop vocational qualifications based on these strategies
• SSCs providing support to vocational qualifications prior to accreditation,ensuring that they meet emoployers needs'
• Accrediting employers' in-house training through the training recognition scheme, which enables employers own high quality to be accredited as part of the national system

Further information on the employer and provider training recognition can be found on QCA's webpage at http://www.qca.org.uk/qca_14937.aspx

Materials

•   Quick Guide 5 - Recognition of Employer and Provider Training within the Qualifications and Credit Framework   (128 KB) Downloadable file
  This quick guide focuses on how Employer and Provider training can be recognised within the QCF.
  
•   Employer and Provider Training Recognition Factsheet   (120 KB) Downloadable file
  The QCA's factsheet about employer and provider training accreditation.
  
•   Evaluation of the Employer and Provider Recognition Pilot (Mar 2008)Downloadable file
  This report reflects the output of work commissioned by the QCA to evaluate the employer and provider recognition pilot, and to consider the implications of findings from the pilot upon next steps.
  
•   A short video on organisations seeking accreditation as an awarding organisationWeb link
  As part of the UK Vocational Qualifications Reform Programme employers' and providers' training can be recognised as part of the national system of accredited qualifications. One way to do this is to ...
  
•   Details of Sector Skills Councils (SSCs)   (172 KB) Downloadable file
  Contact details and links to the website of all Sector Skills Councils