Mark Turner, one of our Assessors in the Aviation Sector has started working with the Airfield Operations team at Heathrow Airport. This work should lead to qualifications in ‘Providing Aviation Operations on the Ground’ from City and Guilds.
The ‘Ops team’ should finish their qualification in February 2011.
Interested in your team getting qualified, then contact us on 01773748866.
A number Firefighters at Gloucestershire and Blackpool Airports have just completed their A1 Assessor qualification. Their Assessors were Ron Drennan and Trevor Whitehead of QA Associates.
QA Associates are specialists in the evaluation & verification of training systems, the design & development of schemes of work & the management of work-based qualifications through our network of ‘Approved Assessment Satellite Centres’.
Why not become one yourself?
Cambridge Airport Rescue & Fire Fighting Service is the latest employer to sign up for the NVQ ‘Providing Aviation Operations on the Ground’ qualification from City & Guilds.
Due to commence in December 2009, QA Associates will oversee the assessment of 9 personnel from the station.
Cambridge Airport follow Bristol International Airport, Manchester International Airport, Norwich International Airport and John Lennon Airport in Liverpool who have had their firefighters and Airside Operational Personnel complete the award.
Over one hundred personnel have a formal qualification in this arena through the ‘Train2Gain’ programme.
QA Associates have become a partner provider with West Nottinghamshire College to deliver a number of work-based qualifications throughout the United Kingdom.
West Nottinghamshire College achieved a clean sweep of top grades in the recent round of Ofsted inspections. This impressive result puts the college in an elite group of colleges nationally with only a handful of others achieving the same result.
The Ofsted report highlighted powerful partnerships and in particular, inspectors noted the excellent relationships developed to meet the needs of local and national employers.
This new partnership with the college will enable QA to offer free vocational training to eligible learners through the governments flag ship initiative for improving workforce skills – ‘Train to Gain’.
For the past six months, Jason, our media designer has been developing electronic portfolios. The aim of the project being to remove the need for all the paper that is found in a traditional NVQ portfolio and utilise electronic evidence from other systems found in the workplace. It also reduces bureaucracy as suggested by QCA.
After an extensive period of testing, the paperless portfolio, which is based on a memory stick, is now a resilient product and one that we feel will be well received. Many thanks to all the RFFS’s that have assisted in the development of the product.
Portfolios for V1, A1, L10 & L11 qualifications are now available.
QA Associates have commenced training personnel from Westinghouse Rail Systems in Manual Handling.
This is a half day course followed by a short examination. Successful students achieve a certificate from The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health. The program is to be rolled out across all Westinghouse sites as part of the companies successful Health & Safety program.
If you are interested in this course for your company’s personnel, please contact us for more details.
