The need for regulatory change
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11.We are consulting on changing the regulation of the Diploma in light of experience from the first two years of its delivery and to consider how it can be offered without government support that is not available for other qualifications.
12.We noted in The Third Report of the Chief Regulator.1 that issues with the Diploma had required from us a detailed operational engagement that we do not undertake for the other qualifications we regulate. This was necessary to make sure the Diploma qualification was successfully awarded. We have not been required to intervene in relation to the component qualifications or with regard to the standard of the award that learners received. We acknowledged that our regulatory requirements for this qualification should be simplified to ensure its delivery is manageable without intensive and expensive central support from Ofqual, Government or others.
13.The Department for Education has formally notified us of Ministers’ support for our intention to consult on this issue and their views on government support for the Diploma..2 In particular they said, “we want to enable the market itself to offer the Diploma on the same terms as other qualifications… allow individual awarding organisations to offer it alongside other qualifications, where there is demand, and remove the current requirements for a government-operated results service.” They made a commitment to “maintain the existing arrangements until summer 2013”.
14.This consultation is limited in its scope to questions about how the Diploma operates. It is not about the regulations that relate to the standard of the overall Diploma qualification or its components because at this time we have no major concerns about their standard. We are taking regulatory action where we have identified any issues in this area..3 Those who have achieved or are working towards a Diploma can be assured it is an appropriately challenging qualification. The aim of the consultation is to inform our decisions on how we regulate so that we can ensure that the qualification is sustainable in the light of evidence from its delivery, the future resources available to support it and the environment in which it will be delivered.
- See Chapter 3 of The Third Report of the Chief Regulator: www.ofqual.gov.uk/files/2010-12-15-the-third-report-of-the-chief-regulator.pdf [↩]
- See letter from Stephen Meek (Director, Young People: Qualifications Strategy and Reform, DfE) to Glenys Stacey (Ofqual CEO). [↩]
- For details see: www.ofqual.gov.uk/files/11-03-23-Diploma-Qualifications-Monitoring.pdf [↩]
In so many cases the people doing the regulating are out of touch with the industry much less standards. training standards need to be raised as the the professional image of the hair dressing industry.For to long hair dressing has been considered the profession to point those who fail in the education system.
thus giving it a wrong image. It’s time to wake up and look at the beauty industry as more than a dumping ground to keep unemployment numbers down
The raising of these standards have to be from the top from the passion and commitment of those training to the goals dreams and vision of those wanting it as a profession.
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