NOCN IT Qualifications

The Department for Education published new National Standards for Essential Digital Skills in April 2019: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-standards-for-essential-digital-skills

These new national standards will impact on our IT qualifications with effect from August 2020:
• We intend to offer new qualifications which will map to the national standards;
• We will review and align our ITQ qualifications with the new national standards to ensure that the content is current and at the correct level.

REVIEWED QUALIFICATIONS

NOCN Entry Level Award in Online Basics (ITQ) (Entry 3)

This qualification will be reviewed and offered as an Entry Level 2 qualification. It will enable progression to the new Entry Level 3 Essential Digital Skills Qualification.

IT User Skills

NOCN Level 1 Award in IT User Skills (ITQ)
NOCN Level 1 Certificate in IT User Skills (ITQ)
NOCN Level 1 Diploma in IT User Skills (ITQ)
NOCN Level 2 Certificate in IT User Skills (ITQ)

These qualifications will be reviewed. We intend to remove units with no registrations or minimal registrations, update and map the content of the remaining units to the national standards and add new units. You will receive an online survey to contribute to the review of the IT User Skills qualifications.

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

Digital Productivity Skills
NOCN Level 2 Award in Digital Productivity Skills
NOCN Level 2 Certificate in Digital Productivity Skills
NOCN Level 3 Award in Digital Productivity Skills
NOCN Level 3 Award in Digital Productivity Skills – Spreadsheets
NOCN Level 3 Award in Digital Productivity Skills – Word Processing

We will continue to offer the Digital Productivity Skills Qualifications. These qualifications were developed in 2019 so we do not anticipate making any revisions.

Digital Functional Skills at Entry Level and Level 1
We will apply to Ofqual to offer the new Digital Functional Skills Qualifications which are planned to be available at Entry Level and Level 1 for first teaching from Autumn 2021.