McDonalds, Flybe and Network Rail to Award Level 2 - 4 QCF Qualifications
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McDonalds, Flybe and Network Rail have been given the right to award Level 2 – 4 QCF qualifications.
The announcement was immediately followed by suggestions that the company-run courses will not be academically rigorous.
To be given the right to award Level 2 – 4 QCF qualifications, the three companies had to meet a set of standards set out by the QCA in its Qualifications Credit Framework (QCF).
Ken Boston, Chief Executive of the QCA, said of this development: “By becoming awarding bodies, Flybe, McDonald’s and Network Rail, are enabling the skills of their employees to be recognised and recorded.
“They are the first three companies to gain awarding body status and we look forward to considering further applications from employers to have their valuable work related learning programmes validated.”
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