Qualifications & Learning Pathways

For your team or workforce

If you have responsibility for developing a workforce and/or new services, you know it’s important for individuals to have access to high quality learning and development. Here you will find: information on qualifications (such as apprenticeships and diplomas); guidance on funding routes; and access to a number of tools which can help you identify skills gaps, design roles, map roles against competences, and carry out assesments.

For your development

If you want to take control of your own personal development, explore our website for information on: the qualifications available; how to access funding; how to improve your Language Literacy and Numeracy; how extending participation is improving access to learning; and the many useful tools to assess your skills (including your current level of competence, the competences you need to develop your career and how your competences fit in with a wider team skills mix.)

For education providers

We work closely with Awarding Bodies and education providers to create demand-led qualifications and modules. We also support the Training Quality Standard, provide information on funding routes and help education providers with a number of resources. These include: our Learning Design Principles for designing qualifications; our Sector Qualification Strategy which sets out the requirements for vocational qualifications; and our Higher Education Strategy which profiles innovative learning through demonstrator sites.