Work-based Learning FAQs

All verification visits will remain remote. This means that we do not expect visits to take place and instead verification will be conducted through e-portfolio systems, electronic evidence submission, or postal sampling. 

Please check the relevant Sector Guidance document and the Quality Assurance Handbooks for more information. 

You can submit your sample electronically, via your own preferred provider (i.e. Google classroom, Dropbox, OneFile etc.). Alternatively, you can post your sample.

We encourage you enable access to your remote systems but understand that this may be restricted to personnel on site. It’s important you work with your LSV/SV to complete or delay the verification process.

Please check the relevant Sector Guidance document and the Quality Assurance Handbook for further information.

Please do not submit original work. In any cases of us needing to reassign your SV, or the work being lost, we will need to be able to access a copy.

Please check the Quality Assurance Handbook for more information.

For providers who can continue assessment and require verification to release certification, please contact your External Examiner to complete the quality assurance process remotely. External examination should continue using a combination of video and photographic everidence, and audio-visual remote technology. Please review the relevant Sector Guidance document for further information.

Reduced assessment has been made available for these qualifications and centres should continue to make every effort to assess and submit evidence for the External Examination process.     

Should students continue to be impacted by COVID-19 and are unable to complete assessment with reduction to assessment in place, you may as a last resort submit Qualification-level- Teacher Assessed Grades (Q-TAGs ). In this circumstance, please contact your External Examiner and they will help you determine the most appropriate action. It is important that you contact your EE as soon as possible if you think you will need to submit Q-TAGs, as they have a submission deadline of 18th June 2021.     

Qualification-level Teacher Assessed Grades (QTAGs)  

It is essential to note that Q-TAGs are determined on evidence. Therefore, a learner’s potential does not need to be considered, and should not form part of the judgement. Please contact your EE who can support you with this and see our detailed guidance on QTAGs.  

For some Licence to Practise qualifications, there may be no other option but to delay assessment until it is safe to do so or once government restrictions have been lifted. Where adaptations are possible, these have been detailed in the Sector Guidance documents.     

Please check the relevant Sector Guidance document for further information.

Any centres facilitating assessments are to ensure arrangements are made to follow government advice regarding social distancing. Where this makes assessment impossible, delaying the assessment is advised.

We continue to explore proctoring solutions to support centres during this period, more information will follow.