QA Associates are pleased to announce the acquisition of Safety Management Services (UK) Limited.
SMS specialises in the assessment of NVQ’s in the Extractives Industry. The acquisition is a strategic fit to the company’s key aim and objective to become a beacon provider of work based qualifications.
The Qualifications Credit Framework is the new structure for creating and accrediting qualifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and is at the heart of a major reform of vocational qualifications in the workplace.
The introduction of the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) with new rules for complexity, credit size, and content has created a complex and evolving landscape for all those in the delivery and accreditation of training and qualifications.
QA Associates intend to be at the forefront of these changes and developments. With a number of our associates being involved with Awarding Bodies and Sector Skills Councils, we seek to support advise and guide both employers and training providers in taking the right options for employee qualifications under these emerging conditions.
Working with Business Link to improve the way we operate, QA Associates will shortly be accredited to ISO 9001.
This will mean that we will be able to monitor and improve the performance and delivery of our services to customers.
Come and visit us on stand 5 at the 2009 AOA Annual Conference and Exhibition at the London Hilton Metropole 7th and 8th December 2009.
MJ Airport Associates in collaboration with QA Associates will be giving details of our new accredited courses for the aviation industry.
Come and chat to either Mark or Dennis about what training we can offer in air-side operations. For pre-conference information contact Mark on 07525 628319 or the QA Associates office on 01773 748866.
Many training providers offer a ‘Certificate of Training Attendance’ with their training courses – but what does that mean? Well the answer is exactly that – it serves as proof of training attendance not that anything was learnt.
Wouldn’t it be good if as well as a certificate of attendance the employee could receive a formal accredited qualification that supports that learning took place? From early next year MJ Airport Associates is working towards offering many of their training courses with a formal accredited qualification.
In collaboration with QA Associates, courses will be offered with customised BTEC qualification. BTEC’s are proven and trusted qualifications that are internationally recognised and highly respected by employers. Employee’s like them because they provide a more personal approach to their own vocational learning requirements.
Using QA Associates as an ‘approved centre’ for quality assurance, courses and student work will be independently verified following on-site and on-course assessment of knowledge, understanding and skills by qualified assessors.
The BTEC qualifications will be made available to both UK and overseas candidates. If you would like to know more about BTEC courses or are interested in arranging a training course with a BTEC qualification then please contact Mark Turner of MJ Airport Associates.
QA Associates became the BTEC ‘approved centre’ for the Fire & Community Safety Section at The Fire Service College at the beginning of 2007.
With a brief of developing a range of qualifications for fire safety courses that are delivered at the college or on outreach, 19 courses at levels 3 & 4 have been approved by Edexcel.
We currently have over 150 students registered for various customised qualifications and the work of the first four students taking the Level 4 ‘BTEC Professional Award in Fire Safety (Fire Alarms, Detection & Emergency Lighting)’ has now been Certified.
For more information, contact Dave Rae at the FSC on 01608 812095.
From April 2007 QA Asssociates will be the BTEC ‘approved centre’ for the Fire Service College, Fire & Community Safety Section. QA Associates will be responsible for the quality assurance of over 19 BTEC qualifications at level 3 & 4 in this sector.
