Correspondence

Letter to awarding organisations: qualification category on Register

A letter sent to Responsible Officers on 20 July 2018 about qualification categories we use and report on

From:
Ofqual
Published
20 July 2018
Last updated
23 July 2018 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

RO62: Information on qualification category

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Annex A Qualification Category Timeline

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Annex B - hierarchy of qualification categories

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Annex C: supporting information flowchart - qualification category

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Annex D: List of qualification category changes

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Details

We wrote to awarding organisations on 15 June 2018 outlining proposals to revise the list of qualification types available in the Portal, visible on the Register and against which we publicly report. We set out a revised list of qualification types with a timeline through which awarding organisations would be expected to review and, if necessary, amend the way their qualifications are categorised.

48 awarding organisations responded to our invitation to provide feedback, either with comments or to ask for clarification. We are now confirming our decisions: to amend the timeline for this work; and to more clearly distinguish between regulatory Types (qualifications with additional regulatory rules) and categories into which qualifications are sorted for convenience and clarity. This work is therefore about categories of data.

Published 20 July 2018
Last updated 23 July 2018 + show all updates

  1. Attachment updated at Annex A to reflect qualification category timeline

  2. 'Type' changed to 'category' in title and summary; additional explanatory sentence on categories of data added.

  3. First published.

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