Southern Culture
Did You Know?
Literature
Lewis Carroll author of Alice's adventures in wonderland, and Through the looking glass, died in Guildford in 1898 while staying with his sisters at "The Chestnuts", Castle Hill. He is buried in The Mount Cemetery. Sculptures of Alice, and of the white rabbit are on the riverside in Guildford town centre near St Nicolas church.
Funding for trainers
If you like to develop and accredit a culturally based qualification, we hope the information below will help you:
Only awarding bodies that are recognised by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) can submit qualifications for accreditation. An awarding body is an organisation that develops and certificates qualifications for training providers to offer. Only awarding bodies that are recognised by the QCQ can submit qualifications for accreditation.
Awarding Body Directory
You can search for awarding bodies that offer qualifications in your particular area. Contact details for QCA awarding bodies can be found through the National Database of Accredited Qualifications www.ndaq.org.uk
Each awarding body has its own set of criteria, which fit into current National Occupational Standards and National Qualifications Framework)
Each application is then assessed by the awarding body, if it complies with its criteria they will forward it to the QCA. QCA have helped developed the National Qualifications Framework, curricula and associated tests and examinations and to develop the essential criteria with which the Awarding Bodies must comply
Awarding Bodies by Sector Skills Council
Initially it may be easier to approach the appropriate Sector Skills Councils for your particular area as they have specialist expertise in qualifications and training for each industry.
1. Skills Active
This provides all the links to the awarding bodies in the Active Learning and Leisure Sector
http://www.skillsactive.com/resources/links/awarding-bodies/?searchterm=awarding%20bodies
2. Lantra SSC for the Environment and land-based sector
Edexcel
Lantra Awards
ASET
RCVS
NPTC/City and Guilds
RHS
BHEST
BHS
ABC
NFCE
CEA
http://www.lantra.co.uk/ Each area eg Floristry / Equine then has its own page.
3. Skillset SSc for broadcast, film, video and multimedia. Awarding bodies offering qualifications relevant to Skillsets sectors are:
ABC
City & Guilds Җ our strategic partner for NVQs and filling gaps in current provision
Edexcel
NCFE
NOCN
OCR
SQA
http://www.skillset.org/
http://www.skillset.org/training/approvals/
This information is freely available on the QCA website as well (link below)
4. People 1st SSC for Hospitality Leisure Travel and Tourism Industries
Little information on this site,
http://www.people1st.co.uk/
Tourism South East is more helpful
http://www.industry.visitsoutheastengland.com/training/training.aspx
5. e skills SSC for IT and Telecoms
City and Guilds
Edexel
OCR ( Oxford, Cambridge, and RSA )
LCCI
Pitman Examination Institute
SQA
http://www.e-skills.com/Useful-Links/114 has links to all these awarding bodies. There is also a link to South-East specific information ( not working at time of research)
6. Lifelong Learning UK SSC for employers who deliver and/or support the delivery of learning in the post-compulsory sector.
The awarding bodies this sector can be found at :
www.accreditedqualifications.org.uk if you go to ֓sector subject area search and then choose sector 13, it will list all the awarding bodies for this sector.
7. Creative and Cultural Skills ԖSSC for advertising, crafts,cultural heritage, design, music, performance, literary and visual arts.
http://www.ccskills.org.uk Go to our industries, select appropriate area ie Design This gives links to the Design Council web site which includes awarding bodies
How can I gain and maximise funding?
Before any funding is made available, you have to prove that it is an accredited qualification, and that fits in with the National Qualifications Framework. Once it is accredited you can then apply also for other funding such as Train to Gain.
Further Education 14-19
LSC has a Learning Aims Framework online where you can find the courses that they will fund
http://providers.lsc.gov.uk/LAD/
http://providers.lsc.gov.uk/LAD/aims/searchcriteria.asp
Higher Education
HEFCE Higher Education Funding Council for England
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/
Current funding methods can be found at
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2004/04_24/
http://hefce.ac.uk/finance/fundinghe/
National Skills Academy is a network of employer-led, world class centre of excellence delivering the skills required by each sector of the economy
http://www.nationalskillsacademy.co.uk/
Or for small funding money see the Funding Links pages