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NVQs (National Vocational Qualifications)
Want to
prove to an employer that you can do the job? Need job-specific
qualifications? Find out more about NVQs!
NVQ Fact
File
- NVQs
are the most well known job-specific vocational qualifications.
- They
are usually taken by people in jobs or on work-based training
programmes, but you can sometimes take them at school or
in college.
- They
show that you have the skills, knowledge and understanding
needed for a particular occupation; that is, you have the capability to do that job.
- NVQs
are awarded by national bodies like Edexcel (BTEC), City
and Guilds and RSA so they are recognised by employers throughout
the UK.
- There
are hundreds of NVQs linked to different jobs.
Levels
of NVQ
- You
can take NVQs at five different levels
- Level
1 is the easiest.
- Young
people following apprenticeships or traineeships usually
take NVQs at levels 2 or 3.
- NVQs
at levels 4 and 5 are for people in higher technician and
professional/management jobs
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What's
the point of having NVQs?
Qualifications
like GCSEs, A/AS levels, GNVQs, AVCEs and Key Skills tell employers
that you have reached a certain level in your general education.
But employers also want to know if you have the knowledge
and skills required to do a specific job or occupation. Are
you qualified to be an engineering technician, a chef, a
plumber, or a hairdresser? This is when you need job-specific
qualifications like NVQs.
Although
NVQs are gradually becoming the main vocational qualifications
available to people at work, some professional bodies, like
the Law Society, still award their own qualifications.
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