Presenter

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City Guilds

• Presenter
• Bill Davidson

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• Presentation Monday 10 September 2007
• 3 areas to be covered
• UK Awarding Bodies and Quality Assurance
• ? City and Guilds International
• Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM)

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City Guilds Vision

• Vision
• We work to build world in which all people and
  organisations can access the skills needed for
  economic and personal well-being
• Mission
• We will become a world-leading provider of
  qualifications and learning for work and adult
  life

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What is City Guilds?

• City Guilds was established in 1878 by The City
  of London and The Guilds of London to encourage
  education and training in, and for, the
  workplace.
• City Guilds Institute was granted a Royal
  Charter in 1990, enabling it to act as a global
  not-for-profit organisation
• City Guilds is the only awarding body solely
  dedicated to vocational learning, offering
  Government and Employers a worldwide recognised
  skills benchmark.
• City Guilds is a global organisation, providing
  unique internationally recognised qualifications
  across the world through City Guilds
  International.

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The City Guilds Group

• City Guilds over 500 qualifications 8,500
  centres
• ILM (Institute of Leadership Management) 2,000
  centres
• NPTC (National Proficiency Tests Council) 750
  centres
• HAB (Hospitality Awarding Body) 500 centres
• City Guilds Enterprise (consultancy)

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What City Guilds can offer

• 128 years of experience and worldwide recognition
• Consultancy and project management
• Customised solutions to fit the customer need
• Accreditation of existing national and employer
  awards
• International Vocational Qualifications
• Higher level awards and entry into international
  universities that recognise City Guilds
• Reliable and effective Quality Assurance
• A partner at the forefront of new technology

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The facts

• City Guilds is the leading vocational awarding
  body in the UK, awarding over 50 of all National
  Vocational Qualifications (NVQs)
• Over 1.9 million learners work towards one of the
  Groups qualifications every year
• Altogether the City Guilds Group awards just
  short of 1.5 million certificates every year
• The City Guilds group has an annual turnover of
  nearly 100 million and employs around 800
  people

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Qualification delivery

• City Guilds has over 8,500 approved centres
  worldwide
• Assessments and qualifications in the UK are
  delivered through further education colleges,
  businesses, private training providers as well as
  the public sector, armed forces and some
  universities
• City Guilds has a network of 12 regional
  offices in the UK
• The Group currently has 3 international hubs
  (London, South Africa, Singapore) and a fourth
  one in development in the Middle East

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Countries where City Guilds qualifications are
available 1

• Antigua and Barbuda
• Australia
• Bahamas
• Bahrain
• Barbados
• Belgium
• Botswana
• Brunei
• Cameroon
• Cayman Islands

• China
• Cyprus
• Egypt
• Gambia
• Greece
• Hong Kong
• Hungary
• Iceland
• India
• Ireland

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Countries where City Guilds qualifications are
available 2

• Italy
• Jamaica
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Malaysia
• Malta
• Mauritius
• New Zealand
• Nigeria
• Saudi Arabia

• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Singapore
• South Africa
• Spain
• Swaziland
• Trinidad and Tobago
• United Kingdom
• West Indies
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

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City Guilds industry areas

• Land-based
• Leisure and creative
• Management
• Motor Vehicle
• Retail and Distribution
• Security
• Sport and Recreation
• Travel and Tourism

• Construction and Construction services
• Education and Training
• Engineering
• Manufacturing
• General Education
• Hair and Beauty
• Health, Social and Community Care
• Hospitality
• IT and Business

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Celebrities with Vocational Qualifications
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Examples of companies CG work with
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Well known employers 1
These UK organisations work with City Guilds to
train their staff

• Glaxosmithkline
• GNER
• Hilton International
• HSBC
• Imperial Tobacco
• Inland Revenue
• John Lewis
• Kodak
• Lloyds TSB
• Marconi
• National grid TRANSCO
• National Trust
• Network Rail

• ASDA
• Astrazeneca
• Autavis Ltd
• Balfour Beatty
• Barnados
• BP
• BAA (British Airways)
• British Gas
• Charles Worthington
• EDF Energy
• Empower
• Fire Brigade
• Ginsters

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Well known employers 2
These UK organisations work with City Guilds to
train their staff

• London Underground
• The Police
• The Red Cross
• Tesco
• Toni Guy
• Total
• TUC
• Vidal Sassoon
• Waitrose
• Xerox
• YMCA

• Nexus
• Nissan
• Powergen
• RSPCA
• Rolls Royce
• RWE Thames Water
• Sainsbury
• Shoefayre
• St Johns Ambulance
• The AA
• The Forestry Commission

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Fascinating facts 1

• Former EastEnders mechanic, Ricky Butcher, had a
  framed City Guilds certificate hanging in the
  garage
• Throughout World War II, it was business as usual
  for our centres - during six years of conflict,
  only one exam was cancelled due to enemy action
• According to a consumer survey carried out in
  2000, one in five households has a City Guilds
  qualification
• City Guilds has been offering plumbing
  qualifications for over 100 years
• 100 of craft plumbers in the UK have a
  qualification jointly awarded by City Guilds

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Fascinating facts 2

• One hundred years ago, City Guilds employed
  just 13 members of staff - now there are over
  1000!
• Trainee mechanics from Tengiz, Kazaksthan, fly
  all the way to Scotland twice a year for three
  years in order to gain their City Guilds Level
  3 mechanics qualifications
• City Guilds is the only individual organisation
  to own its freehold in the City of London
• On an average day over 3,400 people register for
  a City Guilds qualification and 3,300 complete
  their full qualification

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Fascinating facts 3

• UK Ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair was registered as
  a candidate for the City Guilds IT
  qualification
• Former Rugby Super League champions, Bradford
  Bulls, train all their academy players using City
  Guilds Sport and Recreation awards
• ILM has 19,000 members the longest has been a
  member for 50 years
• Last year, the restaurant at our head office in
  London served over 63,500 meals

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Accreditation

• In order to have training accredited, company
  must meet the following criteria

Learner
Management and organisational structure
Management and organisational structure
Learner

• Management structure of organisation
• Including structure for delivery of programme to
  be accredited (names are not required, but posts
  and departments must be indicated).

• Learner support information
• e.g. features of programme, assessment
  requirement, facilities available.

• Equality diversity
• Policy and appeals / complaints procedure

• Informal discussions With 1 or 2 learners and a
  manager.

Programme
Programme

• Resources Accommodation, equipment (hardware and
  software) materials appropriate to the programme.

• Management of staff
• CVs of all staff involved in delivery and
  assessment

• Resources Accommodation, equipment (hardware and
  software) materials appropriate to the programme.

• Management of staff
• CVs of all staff involved in delivery and
  assessment

• Assessment proposals
• Types of assessment to be used and how results
  are confirmed before issue to the learner. There
  should also be a short statement to inform how
  quality assurance and security is to be
  maintained.

• Assessment proposals
• Types of assessment to be used and how results
  are confirmed before issue to the learner. There
  should also be a short statement to inform how
  quality assurance and security is to be
  maintained.

• Record systems Containing learner details,
  progress and achievement, review and evaluation
  procedures, reporting and monitoring procedures.

• Record systems Containing learner details,
  progress and achievement, review and evaluation
  procedures, reporting and monitoring procedures.

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Assessment methods

• The process of assessment involves the collection
  and judgement of learners evidence against a
  standard.
• Observation
• Formal examination
• Examination of product
• Other suitable evidence
• Simulation
• Questioning
• Accreditation of prior learning

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Quality Assurance Maintaining assessment
standards - how?

• Awarding bodies need to ensure that the standard
  of assessments is being maintained
• How?
• by developing qualifications which are expressed
  in clear outcomes
• by providing support and learning materials
• by providing assessment guidance, clear practical
  
• assignments and grading criteria
• by moderating results or verification
• by providing qualified external verifiers to
  support centres

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Internal verification
Assuring the quality of awards as candidates
progress towards their goals
Supports and develops assessors
Manages the quality delivery
Internal Verifier
Liaises with external verifier(s), management etc
Verifies assessments
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External verification
Assuring the quality of assessment and candidate
certification
Report and action plan
Plan the visit
External Verifier
Verifies assessments and internal quality
arrangements
Liaises with assessors, internal verifiers,
management etc
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So heres what CG does
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Any questions and comments?
Thank you!