Accredited training courses and accredited qualifications
Accreditation facilitates a structured approach to quality assured learning as well as providing clear measures of progress for both the individual and the employer.
Further, accreditation plays a significant role in driving employee engagement. By enabling training and development to make a tangible contribution towards a qualification (whether internal or external), accreditation increases the profile and value of learning, inspiring achievement and yielding benefits to employers in the form of more motivated and committed employees.
Working with you, we can enable courses, delivered within your organisation, to earn higher education credits.
These can subsequently contribute to the attainment of an accredited qualification - this process is called accreditation.
For example, your company management programme may be able to contribute towards a higher education certificate or diploma in management. One credit represents 10 hours of learning effort. This learning effort includes:
- work based activity
- reading
- private and directed study
- face-to-face contact.
Additional benefits of accreditation include:
- Benchmarking of in-house programmes to national standards, enhancing their perception and promoting the development of high quality higher education skills within the organisation.
- The process is academically robust - developed with the same rigour and emphasis on quality as our University programmes.
- It provides employees with a quality stamp to the provision and raises the perceived value of the programme.
- It provides employees with the ability to gain academic credit which can contribute to future development and the attainment of qualifications - this provides employees with a clear measure of achievement.
- It drives the development of a clear framework for progression and structured career plans within the organisation.
- It supports in-house trainers to become accredited lecturers with access to our CPD portfolio.
In addition, prior experiential learning can be accredited (APEL) so experiential and uncertificated learning can be recognised and given an academic value.
This enables organisations to recognise lifelong and work based learning and to realise the benefits outlined above. Further, this process can:
- unlock the potential of employees and recognise their value to the company
- increase social inclusion and learner empowerment
- widen participation to previously excluded groups
- enable cost efficient staff development.
Watch as our staff and clients explain how we've been exploring how the use of technology can add value to assessment, feedback and accreditation.
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