Frequently Asked Questions
SVQs are Scottish Vocational Qualifications and NVQs are National Vocational Qualifications. SVQs and NVQs are qualifications gained by using your knowledge and skills to work competently. Your knowledge and skills are assessed on site by your assessor.
You should choose to work towards the qualification-or unit(s)-which most closely reflects activities contained in your current job role.
Firstly choose a reputable and experienced assessment centre like ours.
To achieve the S/NVQ you must prove to our qualified assessor that you can perform competently to the standards applicable to the qualification sought.
To do so you must produce evidence of your competence for the assessor to judge. The evidence will be compiled in a portfolio and will come from a variety of sources, including the assessor's observation of your performance at work, documents from projects and day to day activities, and your responses to questions put by the assessor.
No. The S/NVQ is made up of stand-alone units (some core and some optional) which are separately assessed. You can work towards individual units, or clusters of units, and can have these separately certificated if required.
No. Previous qualifications are not required. Experience is needed, however, because S/NVQs are assessed on the basis of your performance in a real work situation.
No. All that is required is that you demonstrate competence to the specified standard while on your job role.
The Awarding Body awards SVQs and NVQs and approves and monitors Assessment Centres.
Edutrain as an Assessment Centre is approved by the Awarding Body to offer SVQs and NVQs. We aim to guide you through the whole assessment process until certification.
Our Assessors are responsible for assessing and guiding you throughout the assessment process until completion to the National Occupational Standards.
Our Internal Verifier quality assures the whole assessment process
The External Verifier monitors the approved Assessment Centre, Internal Verifiers and Assessors.
