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Qualification Suite

Qualification Overview

Level /Minimum Age

Developing Skills for Employment 
  • Our qualifications in Developing Skills for Employment (QCF) are intended to develop a wide range of skills relevant to vocational employment which allow young people to make informed career and progression choices and build their self-esteem and confidence.
Level 114
Level 214

Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability

  • Our qualifications in Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability (QCF) aim to increase learners’ knowledge of the society in which they live and work, providing them with the knowledge and skills to make balanced and increasingly independent transitions both now and in later life.
Level 114
Level 214
Employability
  • Our qualifications in Employability (QCF) encourage the skills, attributes, behaviours and values that learners need to enter and succeed in the world of work and are designed to be flexible, allowing learners to achieve at their own pace.
Level 116
Level 216
Getting on at Work
  • Our qualifications in Getting on at Work (QCF) offer learners the opportunity to explore current workplace issues whilst developing the essential and transferable skills needed to sustain employment, progress at work and cope with change in a competitive labour market.
Entry 316
Level 116

Leading Learning

 

  • These qualifications are designed to develop leadership skills for those undertaking a Learning Leader role within a school or other setting for example workplace, community, custodial setting or Further Education college, where they will lead and support learners in activities to develop literacy, mathematics, science or ICT skills and understanding.
Level 214
Personal Well-Being
  • The NOCN qualifications in Personal Well-Being form part of a suite of Personal Social Health Economic education qualifications which aim to increase learners’ knowledge of the society in which they live and will work.
Level 114
Level 214
Progression
  • Our qualifications in Progression (QCF) have been devised to progress learners into further learning and/or employment. Over 600 units can be combined to create individualised learning programmes tailored to learners' needs.
Entry 316
Level 116
Level 216
Level 316
Step Up
  • Our qualifications in Skills Towards Enabling Progression (Step-UP) (QCF)are an innovative range of credit-based qualifications, developed to accredit a wide variety of activities engaged in by learners aged 14 years and over.
Entry 314
Level 114

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