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Stratagia is ISO certified

Alex Hudson — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:26:58 +0000

Stratagia is now accredited as a certified company against ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management Systems. Many of the systems and processes were already in place but these have been developed and checked to ensure they fully meet the requirements of this leading quality standard.

Don’t miss out!

Andrew — Wed, 04 May 2011 11:55:23 +0000

We still have a limited number of places left for our Spring / Summer programme of workshops in May and June of 2011. Book now to guarantee a place. For more information or to book a place on a workshop visit: www.stratagia.co.uk/programme-of-workshops

Spring / Summer programme of workshops

Andrew — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:30:02 +0000

Help with unit and qualifications development

Following the success of workshops recently delivered by Stratagia, we have arranged a spring / summer programme covering a wide range of aspects of unit and qualifications development. Each workshop has a different focus, so you can select one or more to suit your needs.

There is a workshop to help those who:

are new to QCF development and want to get started
have experience but want to improve your practice in unit writing or qualifications development
ensure that your units and qualifications are compliant with the Regulators
want to compare your efforts with peers from other organisations involved in unit and qualifications development
would like to know how to design and tailor Rules of Combination (RoC) to suit your situation
are interested in understanding how grading may be applied to qualifications within the QCF
want to understand how different forms of assessment may be applied within the QCF to suit different learners

We recently ran a series of workshops and these are just some of the comments of people who took part:

“… very clear, concise and delivered at an appropriate pace.

“(I got) a much better understanding of unit writing issues and what areas to concentrate on when writing units. Also reconfirmation of where to find guidance/regs and how to interpret them.”

“A better detailed understanding of unit writing and interpretation.”

“Thanks to both facilitators for a very informative day.”

“I thought it was excellent and covered areas that were applicable to all.”

“Very good trainers, both were helpful and informative.”

The programme will begin in May 2011 and continues until June 2011. After the workshop, we will provide you with free consultancy so that you get feedback on any aspect of QCF development, for example, we will review draft unit or Rules of Combination. The numbers for each workshop are limited so please book now to to avoid any disappointment. Click here for further details and how to book places on the Spring / Summer programme of workshops.

Click here for further details and how to book places on the Spring / Summer programme of workshops

Winter programme of workshops

Andrew — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:09:33 +0000

Help with unit and qualifications development

Following the success of workshops recently delivered by Stratagia, we have arranged a winter programme covering a wide range of aspects of unit and qualifications development. Each workshop has a different focus, so you can select one or more to suit your needs.

There is a workshop to help those who:

are new to QCF development and want to get started
have experience but want to improve your practice in unit writing or qualifications development
ensure that your units and qualifications are compliant with the Regulators
want to compare your efforts with peers from other organisations involved in unit and qualifications development
would like to know how to design and tailor Rules of Combination (RoC) to suit your situation
are interested in understanding how grading may be applied to qualifications within the QCF
want to understand how different forms of assessment may be applied within the QCF to suit different learners

We recently ran a series of workshops and these are just some of the comments of people who took part:

“… very clear, concise and delivered at an appropriate pace.

“(I got) a much better understanding of unit writing issues and what areas to concentrate on when writing units. Also reconfirmation of where to find guidance/regs and how to interpret them.”

“A better detailed understanding of unit writing and interpretation.”

“Thanks to both facilitators for a very informative day.”

“I thought it was excellent and covered areas that were applicable to all.”

“Very good trainers, both were helpful and informative.”

The programme will begin in December and continues until February. After the workshop, we will provide you with free consultancy so that you get feedback on any aspect of QCF development, for example, we will review draft unit or Rules of Combination. The numbers for each workshop are limited so please book now to to avoid any disappointment. Click here for further details and how to book places on the Winter programme of workshops.

Click here for further details and how to book places on the Winter programme of workshops

The results are in: our FAB Conference mini-survey

Alex Hudson — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:13:28 +0000

We would like to thank everyone who visited our exhibition stand at the FAB conference. During the conference, we ran a survey asking attendees from Awarding Organisations (AOs) about the challenges they faced with QCF qualification development right now, and we especially thank the 36 people who took the time to participate in our survey. We’ve analysed the results, and will publish a short report early in the new year, but we can share some of the highlights now.

The most pressing policy issue identified by respondents was funding of qualifications. With increased competition between AOs and a recent change of Government, a lot of people expressed concern over their market position and the impact of changes to the existing funding regimes.
In terms of QCF-specific challenges, respondents raised two main problems: first, dealing with equivalence across qualifications, and second writing higher-level units (that is to say, units at level 4 or above).
Lastly, a large proportion of participants identified IT process and system challenges: either internal IT systems to support their accreditation process, or interfacing with the IT systems of other organisations. Indeed, improving internal IT systems was ranked mostly highly as an area in which there is scope for improving technical skills.

We look forward to publishing our full findings early next year; if you’d like a copy of the report sent directly to you then please let us know, or of course subscribe to our website’s RSS feed or follow us on twitter to get notified of updates!