Additional recognition requirements for principal learning and project component awarding bodies

Provision of the principal learning component

Component awarding bodies may offer principal learning qualifications at one or more levels for a line of learning.

13. Component awarding bodies offering principal learning must provide the whole qualification for that level and line of learning.

Centre approval

14. Component awarding bodies must have procedures in place for the approval of centres involved in principal learning.

Grading

The Diploma is graded. The principal learning and the project qualifications at levels 1, 2 and 3 must meet the overall grading requirements for the Diploma.

15. Component awarding bodies offering principal learning and/or the project must have, or have access to, the expertise and administrative systems needed to meet the overall grading requirements of principal learning and project qualifications for the Diploma.

Enquiries and appeals

Awarding organisations should refer to The statutory regulation of external qualifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 2004) and to the GCSE, GCE, principal learning and project code of practice. (Ofqual, DCELLS, CCEA 2010)

16. Component awarding bodies must have procedures for enquiries and appeals that meet regulatory requirements for principal learning and the project.

Malpractice

Existing requirements on enquiries and appeals and malpractice remain in place for additional and specialist learning constituent qualifications.

17. Component awarding bodies must have procedures for reporting on and dealing with instances of malpractice that meet regulatory requirements for principal learning and project qualifications.1

  1. For guidance, awarding organisations should refer to Dealing with significant cases of suspected malpractice by those involved in the delivery of qualifications (QCA DELLS, CCEA, SQA, 2006). [↩]