SQA Satellite Centres

If your organisation has vocational qualifications from the Scottish Qualifications Authority at the heart of your learning and development strategy, it can be cost effective for you to consider becoming an SQA Satellite Centre.

This can reduce your training provider costs while we keep the responsibility for quality assurance and manage the relationship with SQA.

We would work closely with you to set-up the satellite centre arrangement and we would guide you on what is required on an on-going basis.

CHOOSING THE RIGHT DELIVERY METHOD FOR YOUR LEARNERS 

TRAINING WORKSHOP

Focusing on the workshop approach, this training would generally be carried out in a two day workshop.

In this workshop we cover:

• Introduction to Competence
• Organising and Preparing
• Carry Out Assessments
• Discussion and Questioning
• Judging and Recording Evidence
• Providing Feedback
• Quality Assurance

Once your assessors complete the training workshops, they are then required to work through the rest of the qualification back at their workplace. Your assessors are supported throughout by a Polaris Learning consultant.

On successful completion of the qualification an SQA certificate is awarded.

ONLINE LEARNING 

This involves the provision of an online training process which includes the completion of formal knowledge assignments.  This would typically take one day to complete.

The online modules are:

• Module 1: Introduction to Competence
• Module 2: Organising and Preparing
• Module 3: Carry Out Assessments
• Module 4: Discussion and Questioning
• Module 5: Judging and Recording Evidence
• Module 6: Feedback
• Module 7: Quality Assurance
• Module 8: Qualification – What Next?

Following completion of the online modules and assessment planning, the learner completes the necessary work to generate the evidence required by the qualification back in their workplace.  This includes the assessment of two individuals.

We allocate each assessor with a Polaris Learning consultant who works closely with the learner. We build in a series of live webinars or on demand webinars to support the learning process. Client reporting is built in as standard so you can keep track of progress.

The duration of the programme can be organised to suit your requirements and we can facilitate the completion of this over a short or longer period of time.

BLENDED LEARNING

We can also offer a combination of face to face, online and webinar support and this can be tailored to meet your requirements.

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