As a part of our programme of moving our older courses from our other eLearning Environment at 123skilled.com and adding/updating courses to this, our new eLearning Environment, we are pleased to announce the development of a Free Course on 'NVQs/SVQs - Understanding Them'.

This course is specifically designed to answer a lot of questions that we get via email about NVQs, implementing them, the NVQ Assessor Award and Internal Verifier Awards, etc. Currently, the amount of information there is limited and is being added to on a daily basis.

The course modules cover the subject to provide a reasonable overview and insight however, if you are wanting to achieve accreditation and become an NVQ Assessor Unit A1/Unit A2 or an Internal Verifier Unit V1, then you will be required to be assessed against the National Standards for the qualifications.

The following topics are covered (or will be shortly):

• About NVQs:
• What are they their history, structure, etc.;
• Understanding Assessment:
• What is is, how to conduct them, etc.;
• Understanding Internal Verification:
• What it is, how to conduct verification, etc;
• Roles and Responsibilities:
• About the people involved, who does what, etc.;

The course includes a 'discussion forum' and 'glossary' of the terminology used in NVQs/SVQs.

Whilst the course is 'Free', you will need to be registered on this site to access it.

To access the course: Click here

We are delighted to announce the development of another professional relationship, and this is with Reynolds Training Services Ltd.

Reynolds Training Services Ltd specialises mainly within the Bulk Liquid Warehousing and Energy Sectors covering:

• Jetty and Terminal Operations;
• Occupational Health and Safety;
• Safety Management
• Procedural activities.

Reynolds Training Services Ltd is backed and owned by John Reynolds who has over 20 years experience in the Bulk Liquid Warehousing sector from jetty and terminal operations through to operational and safety management of Top Tier COMAH facilities, with a proven record of Training Delivery and Vocational Competency assessment covering thirty years.

Reynolds Training Services Ltd brings further support with additional accredited assessors to our delivery of assessment services for Health and Safety NVQs.

Our professional relationship includes Reynolds Training Services Ltd delivering and assessing the Bulk Liquid Warehousing NVQs with The Gill Payne Partnership Ltd extending our Centre Status to include these qualifications, coupling our years of experience as an Awarding Centre with John Reynolds years of assessment experience in the field - we believe that this is a seriously dynamic and effective relationship.

Welcome to our ALL NEW site

Following the success of our original web site and the feedback received from visitors and clients about the type and depth of information, we decided to implement this complete redesign of our site so that we can provide more information along with dicussion forums, such as 'Talking Development', where clients, users and visitors can ask questions relating to the development of themselves, staff or company.

It is our intention to combine our eLearning web site into this main site and this will happen over the coming months. We will also gradually add a number of free short courses or 'toolbox talks'.

This new site will provide the following that our previous site could not:

• Online discussion forums;
• Online e-based learning;
• Glossaries;
• Information resouces on qualifications;
• General NVQ support and guidance to all;
• Direct news delivery.