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Teaching, Assessing & IQA
The qualifications behind delivering and assessing training properly: teaching, then assessing, then quality assuring. Plus train the trainer courses, where we train one of your own people to deliver a single subject in house.
The qualifications
Teaching, assessing, then quality assuring
Subject train the trainer
Have one of your own people trained to deliver it
Which route
A qualification, or the ability to deliver one subject
You want to teach, generally
Take the Level 3 Award in Education and Training. It is a teaching qualification, not tied to any subject.
You want to assess competence
CAVA at Level 3. This is the one an NVQ assessor needs.
You want to quality assure assessors
The Level 4 IQA Award, for the person sampling and standardising what the assessors do.
You want manual handling delivered in house
The subject train the trainer course. Shorter, focused on one subject, and it makes your own person the trainer for it.
Why bring it in house
The maths on training your own trainer
If you put twenty people a year through manual handling, you are paying for a trainer twenty times and losing the diary flexibility that comes with it. Train one of your own and you deliver it when the shift pattern allows, for new starters on their first week rather than on the next available date.
It suits businesses with turnover, shift work, or sites spread out enough that getting everybody to one place is the hard part. It does not suit somebody training four people once.
The qualifications are a separate thing again. Those are for people whose job involves teaching or assessing across subjects, and they are recognised well beyond your own business.
- Deliver it on your own timetable, including to new starters on day one
- No travel and no waiting for the next public date
- Cheaper per head once the numbers get past a certain point
- We stay on the end of the phone for the awkward questions
Common questions about train the trainer
The Level 3 Award in Education and Training is a recognised teaching qualification that is not tied to a subject. A subject train the trainer course, like manual handling, trains somebody to deliver that one course to their own colleagues. If you want to teach generally, take the AET. If you want manual handling covered in house, take the manual handling course.
Not usually, and we will tell you if it applies in your case. Plenty of people take a subject course on its own, and plenty take the AET afterwards once they find they enjoy it.
The Level 3 Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement, usually shortened to CAVA. If you will be quality assuring other assessors rather than assessing learners, that is the Level 4 IQA Award.
Usually yes. Tell us the course or the subject and how many people they would be training, and we will tell you honestly whether it makes sense and what it would take.
At our centres and at your own premises. For a subject train the trainer course, your own site is often better, because the trainer learns to deliver it in the room they will actually be using.
It depends which one. The subject courses are short. The qualifications are longer and involve assessment, and the individual course pages set out the hours and what is involved.
Live dates
What is scheduled
None of these courses has a date scheduled at the moment. That does not mean we cannot run one: tell us the course and the numbers and we will put a date on, at one of our centres or at your place. Call 0330 124 2165 or email hello@acadame.co.uk.
Not sure whether you need a qualification or a trainer?
Tell us what you are trying to cover and how many people, and we will tell you which of these actually fits. Sometimes the answer is that you do not need any of them.