National Vocational Qualifications ( NVQs ) are work based awards in England, Wales and Northern Ireland that are achieved through assessment and training.

NVQs are based on National Occupational Standards that describe the ' competencies ' expected in any given job role.

Both Graduateship ( GCGI ) and Associateship ( ACGI ) are at level six of the National Qualifications Framework, compared by OFQUAL to the highest category NVQs of level 4.

The qualifications offered are BTEC introductory, first and national qualifications, NVQs, Technical awards and certificates.

Here, a range of full-time courses such as AS / A Levels, BTEC National Diplomas and NVQs are on offer to potential students.

Sussex Downs College provides a range of courses including A levels, GCSEs and vocational qualifications such as NVQs and BTECs.

All external qualifications in Wales were regulated by ACCAC with the exception of NVQs, which QCA is responsible for.

The revised versions will include smaller sized BTEC qualifications to provide QCF-accredited and funded Additional Specialist Learning ( ASL ) to go alongside the new Diplomas, GCSEs, GCEs, NVQs and Apprenticeships.

All courses lead to qualifications such as NVQs, and there is the option for further study with the Open University.

Swansea College provided preparation for a number of qualifications, including GCSEs, the IB Diploma Programme, A-levels and HNDs, as well as a number of vocational courses leading to BTEC First and National Diplomas, NVQs and other similar qualifications.

The faculty provided preparation for a number of qualifications, including A-levels, the IB and HNDs, as well as a number of vocational courses leading to BTEC First and National Diplomas, NVQs and other similar qualifications.

The prison education department offers inmates opportunities to study for qualifications such as NVQs, GCSEs and A Levels in subjects including English, Maths, ESOL, information technology, business administration, graphic design, reprographics and printing, visual art, catering, baking, hospitality, hairdressing and barbering, industrial cleaning, construction industry training in trowel trades, plastering, painting and decorating, carpentry, plumbing, civil engineering, Fork lift training, light engineering, railway engineering, horticulture, waste management, textiles, and a range of PE courses.

Membership ( MCGI ) is placed on NQF level 7, and Fellowship ( FCGI ) on level 8, compared by OFQUAL to NVQs of level 5.

They also offer a wide range of training courses for building professionals including construction related National Vocational Qualifications NVQs.

This ranges from short skills workshops, through to NVQs, BTEC, Higher National Diplomas and apprenticeships.

The prison's regime includes education ( full / part-time ), workshops, vocational training in the construction industry, farms and gardens, works, and NVQs.

Courses in the area including, Diplomas, AS / A2 Level courses, Apprenticeships and NVQs.

* Tycoch Campus – Sketty-Main site of the College, provided A level, IB and all Vocational Courses ranging from NVQs to BTEC awards.

Full-time students study a wide range of courses at all levels including A Levels, BTEC, NVQs and GCSEs.

Apprenticeships may be available leading to NVQs / SVQs in Level 2 in Sound Assistance, Level 3 in Sound Operations, and Level 4 in Sound Direction.

In any case it is by no means clear that formally structured organs of participation are what is called for at all.

factors are formally found to produce statistically significant

Instructions are usually assumed to be listed explicitly, and are described as starting " from the top " and going " down to the bottom ", an idea that is described more formally by flow of control.

Atomic semantics are defined formally in Lamport's " On Interprocess Communication " Distributed Computing 1, 2 ( 1986 ), 77-101.

Abstract data types are purely theoretical entities, used ( among other things ) to simplify the description of abstract algorithms, to classify and evaluate data structures, and to formally describe the type systems of programming languages.

Alkynes are traditionally known as acetylenes, although the name acetylene also refers specifically to C < sub > 2 </ sub > H < sub > 2 </ sub >, known formally as ethyne using IUPAC nomenclature.

By definition it does not cover problems whose solution are unknown or have not been characterised formally.

There are five separate U. S. installations: Shipton Kaserne, home to 412th Aviation Support Battalion, Katterbach Kaserne, formally the home of the 1st Infantry Division's 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, which has been replaced by the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade as of 2006, as part of the 1st Infantry Division's return to Fort Riley, Kansas ; Bismarck Kaserne, which functions as a satellite post to Katterbach, hosting their Post Exchange, Theater, Barracks, Franconia Inn, Military Police, and other support agencies, Barton Barracks, home to the USAG Ansbach and Bleidorn Barracks, which has a library and housing.

These rules are sufficient to formally write the Hermitian conjugate of any such expression ; some examples are as follows:

British Standards are the standards produced by BSI Group which is incorporated under a Royal Charter ( and which is formally designated as the National Standards Body ( NSB ) for the UK ).

Its members are formally referred to as carnivorans, while the word " carnivore " ( often popularly applied to members of this group ) can refer to any meat-eating organism.

Although there are conflicting dates as to when they met ( some sources state that they met in January 1989 at the Satyricon nightclub ), Love stated that the two first encountered one another in January 1988 at a Dharma Bums show where she was doing a spoken word performance, and Erlandson stated that both he and Love were formally introduced to Cobain in a parking lot after a Butthole Surfers concert at the Hollywood Paladium in 1991.

These individuals are usually considered to be mentally ill, although the compulsion to eat human flesh is not formally listed as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ).

The various chemical elements are formally identified by their unique atomic numbers, by their accepted names, and by their symbols.

The latter document has been criticised for claiming that non-Christians are in a " gravely deficient situation " as compared to Catholics, but also adds that " for those who are not formally and visibly members of the Church, salvation in Christ is accessible by virtue of a grace which, while having a mysterious relationship to the Church, does not make them formally part of the Church, but enlightens them in a way which is accommodated to their spiritual and material situation.

Although these letters are not formally published in the Doctrine and Covenants, they are still deemed to be inspired, and are dealt with in the same manner that revelations are ( that is, they must be deliberated and approved by the voting members of a World Conference ).

When receiving diplomats — who formally represent the sovereign — the receiving head of state grants certain privileges and immunities to ensure they may effectively carry out their duties, on the understanding that these are provided on a reciprocal basis.

Strikes should be declared illegal against corporations because disagreements would have to be settled by government representatives acting as controllers of the corporation whose responsibility to the state would now be defined against proprietorship because employees and proprietors must be completely interdependent, as they are each a part of the whole.

The activities of the Planning Division are defined in considerable detail in the enabling act of the Development Council, which assigns to the agency both broad responsibilities and specific duties in the field of planning.

The remaining ( incomplete ) components all have an even number of ordinary points at any argument, and are defined only on a proper sub-interval of Aj.

These are defined by a simple involutorial transformation of the points in which a general line meets a nonsingular quadric surface bearing a curve of symbol Af.

Even those who appear in only one or two scenes are full personalities, defined with economical precision.

But since this is a world in which people disagree about ends and goals and concerning justice and injustice, and since, in a situation where direct action and economic pressure are called for, the justice of the matter has either not been clearly defined by law or the law is not effectively present, there has to be a morality of means applied in every case in which people take it upon themselves to use economic pressures or other forms of force.

However, in contexts where " amoeboid " is defined more loosely, there are many amoeboid species that are in the Excavata clade.

Traditionally, amphibians as a class are defined as all tetrapods with a larval stage, while the group that includes the common ancestors of all living amphibians ( frogs, salamanders and caecilians ) and all their descendants is called Lissamphibia.

Other families included in the Alismatates as currently defined are here distributed among ten additional orders, all of which are assigned, with the following exception, to the Subclass Alismatidae.

The provinces of Turkey are organized into 7 census-defined regions (), which were originally defined at the First Geography Congress in 1941.

Regions as defined in this context are merely for statistical, geographical, geological and climate related purposes and do not refer to an administrative division.

By the Naturalisation Act 1870, it was made possible for British subjects to renounce their nationality and allegiance, and the ways in which that nationality is lost are defined.

Cinematographic aspect ratios are usually denoted as a ( rounded ) decimal multiple of width vs unit height, while photographic and videographic aspect ratios are usually defined and denoted by whole number ratios of width to height.

Algebraic numbers are all numbers that can be defined explicitly or implicitly in terms of polynomials, starting from the rational numbers.

Most broadly, all numbers that can be defined explicitly or implicitly in terms of polynomials, exponentials, and logarithms are called " elementary numbers ", and these include the algebraic numbers, plus some transcendental numbers.

Angles are usually presumed to be in a Euclidean plane, but are also defined in non-Euclidean geometry.

Arianism is defined as those teachings attributed to Arius which are in opposition to mainstream Trinitarian Christological doctrine, as determined by the first two Ecumenical Councils and currently maintained by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and most Reformation Protestant Churches.

Alpha decay is by far the most common form of cluster decay where the parent atom ejects a defined daughter collection of nucleons, leaving another defined product behind ( in nuclear fission, a number of different pairs of daughters of approximately equal size are formed ).

There are five classes of amber, defined on the basis of their chemical constituents.

For galaxies ( which are of course themselves much larger than 10 parsecs, and whose overall brightness cannot be directly observed from relatively short distances ) the absolute magnitude is defined by reference to the apparent brightness of a point-like or star-like source of the same total luminosity as the galaxy, as it would appear if observed at the standard 10 parsecs distance.