Quality Model for NOCN Courses

OCNYHR appoints Quality Reviewers to support providers for all NOCN provision.

The Quality Reviewer will carry out an annual quality review of systems, practice and processes to ensure that each Centre is meeting the Centre Recognition requirements. These include information about administration of OCN courses, assessment and quality assurance of learning and achievement and continuing professional development for staff.

In most instances the Quality Reviewer will visit each Centre twice a year. In the second visit, the Quality Reviewer will visit a group of learners, work with assessors and Internal Verifiers, and if possible attend either a standardisation event or an Internal Verification meeting. The QR may also want to sample learners assessed work.

All Centres are required to move to Approved Internal Verifier Status for their NOCN provision by September 2010, when all provision will move across to the Qualification and Credit Framework.

There are some qualifications and some providers which will remain outside of this format. The Quality Reviewer may be required to externally verify achievement for some provision or QCA specified qualifications e.g. ESOL.

OCNYHR has appointed some specialist Quality Reviewers for areas of learning which either require External Verification or for areas which have very limited application and are highly specialised e.g. courses relating to sight or hearing impairment.

Please refer to the NOCN CENTRE HANDBOOK for further information.

Click here to download the NOCN Centre Handbook.