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15-670: The Scottish Vocational Educational Council ( SCOTVEC ) was the awarding body for vocational qualifications in Scotland from 1985 until 1997. SCOTVEC was established by the merger of the Scottish Business Education Council (SCOTBEC) and the Scottish Technical Education Council (SCOTEC) in 1985. It awarded the vast majority of Scottish vocational qualifications. In 1997, SCOTVEC merged with its academic counterpart,

30-1087: A body with degree awarding powers. The regulatory bodies are Ofqual in England , the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations & Assessment (CCEA) in Northern Ireland , the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) in Scotland and Qualifications Wales in Wales ; the Quality Assurance Agency covers all higher education providers in the UK and maintains the Framework for Higher Education Qualifications (FHEQ). There are over 200 of these Awarding Bodies on

45-546: Is circulated to over 80,000 members of the CMI. The Chartered Manager process requires candidates to demonstrate how they have developed as a manager and how they have applied their leadership and management skills to achieve significant business impact. Following an application, successful candidate are entitled to use the designatory post-nominal letters of CMgr . There are two routes to becoming Chartered: Candidate who have less than 3 years managerial experience might be given

60-488: Is taken to consist of 120 credits, and a full calendar year 180 credits, so a bachelor's degree with honours normally totals 360 credits (split equally across FHEQ levels 4–6) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland or 480 credits (split equally across SCQF levels 7–10) in Scotland, while a doctoral degree (if credits are used) is 540 credits at FHEQ level 8/SCQF level 12. For comparison, the largest RQF qualification at level 8,

75-657: The CMI Level 8 Diploma In Strategic Direction and Leadership, has a size of 67 credits. Chartered Management Institute The Chartered Management Institute ( CMI ) is a professional institution for management based in the United Kingdom . It was founded as the British Institute of Management (BIM) in 1947 or 1948, merged with the Institution of Industrial Managers (IIM) in 1992 to form

90-603: The Institute of Management (IM), and gained a royal charter, and its present name, in 2002. The major membership classes are: In addition to supporting its members, the organisation encourages management development, carries out research, produces a wide variety of publications on management interests, and publishes the official members' magazine, Professional Manager . The institute also engages with government and other public bodies concerning policy on management and business related issues. Professional Manager magazine

105-479: The Scottish Examination Board , to form the Scottish Qualifications Authority . This article relating to education in Scotland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to government in Scotland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Awarding body In the UK, in order for a qualification to be recognised as part of one of

120-579: The British Institute of Management (MBIM) etc. Each level follows a format whereby a number of credits gained lead to an Award (which develops basic skills and knowledge appropriate to that level), Certificate (covers a broader area and builds on knowledge gained in the award), and Diploma (where a comprehensive range of skills and knowledge are gained). Qualifications are part of the UK's Regulated Qualifications Framework . The CMI also accredits Coaching and Mentoring qualifications to support

135-456: The FHEQ (which starts at level 4), allowing the difficulty of a qualification to be equated, e.g. level 6 is at the same level of difficulty as a bachelor's degree and level 8 is at the same level of difficulty as a doctoral degree . The levels used in Scotland are different from those in the rest of the UK, but are still common across SQA and higher education qualifications, with level 10 being at

150-675: The Foundation Chartered status, which requires a management qualification at a degree/non-degree level equivalent to at least CMI Level 3,4 or 5 and/or CMI Level 6 and 7. This grade carries entitlement to use the designatory post-nominal letters of fCMgr . Criteria and requirements for chartered status in the UK have to be approved by the Privy Council ; as such the criteria for Chartered Manager designation are "broadly similar" to chartered statuses in other fields. Timeline Obsolete membership grades include Member of

165-503: The Register of Regulated Qualifications (covering England and Northern Ireland). Some specialise in specific subjects. Others specialise in types of qualifications, such as ‘A’ levels, GCSEs and vocational competence or knowledge based qualifications. An awarding body does not always provide the courses that lead to a qualification. Often an awarding body will provide an approval process for independent training providers who, if they meet

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180-675: The UK qualifications frameworks: the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF), the Credit and Qualifications Framework for Wales (CQFW) or the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) in England and Northern Ireland, it must be awarded by an awarding body that is recognised by one of the government-appointed regulatory bodies or (for higher education qualifications on the SCQF and QCFW) be awarded by

195-430: The criteria, are able to award qualifications that are accredited by that awarding body. An RQF qualification from an awarding body is always clearly identified as being at one of 9 Levels. These begin with ‘Entry Level’ (which is further divided into three sub-levels) and then run from Level One through to Level Eight. These levels are common across the different frameworks in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including

210-505: The development of coaching and mentoring skills and techniques of individuals, teams and achieve objectives. Management and Leadership qualifications can be accessed through accredited centres. When choosing the correct management qualification to study it is important to first choose the correct level of qualification, which will largely be driven by experience and previous study. Level 5 qualification are foundation degree level equivalent and level 7 equates to postgraduate masters level. Once

225-779: The same level of difficulty as an honours degree and level 12 a doctoral degree . There is a correspondence between the UK frameworks and the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) as follows: Qualifications also have credit sizes, using the UK Credit of 1 credit = 10 nominal hours of work or study (termed Total Qualification Time in the RQF). On the RQF, the terms 'Award', 'Certificate' and 'Diploma' are used to distinguish qualifications of 1 - 12 credits, 13 - 36 credits and 37+ credits respectively. An academic year

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