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CUSTOMISED PROVISION

Customised Provision provides employers and providers with a way of gaining recognition and accreditation for quality programmes and qualifications that accredit learning and progression and celibrate achievement but which do not need to draw down public funing for delivery. 

Ascentis has a full range of Customised Provision which can be applied to all learning situations, e.g.

  • Quality Assurance of a Programme of Learning
  • Celebration of Attendance and Achievement
  • Fully assessed qualifications (Award, Certificate or Diploma) at all levels

Customised Provision continues to be popular with employers and charities who want to provide their employees and clients with a national stamp of approval for internal training courses and/or provide internal progression routes for promotion and pay rise purposes.

Customised Provision is equally popular with Training Providers who wish to develop and market their own independently quality assured provision developed to national standards on a fee paying basis.

Customised Provision can provide learners with a ladder of opportunities that can lead to Higher Education (via Access to HE programmes) or enhance job prospects leading to work. In many cases there is no examination and learners are required to produce evidence of learning through coursework or short classroom tasks which are internally produced and assessed and externally moderated by Ascentis.

* NEW * Home Learners can now benefit from Ascentis Customised Provision - Ascentis is now working closely with NCC Home Learning to develop a range of Ascentis accredited home learning packages which make learning to gain a qualification easy. Learners purchace their learning pack from NCC and complete all the assessemnts whilst supported by NCC's qualified tutors and at the end can achieve a qualification in their chosen subject validated by Ascentis.  See NCC's website for further details:- http://www.ncchomelearning.co.uk/Letters.html

Customised Qualifications are written in conjunction with Ascentis' Qualification Developers and as such can reflect exactly what each organisation needs (thus Customised Provision). A wide range of subject areas are encompassed from Art and Drama to Business Administration to Motor Vehicle Operations.

Organisations wishing to develop new or specific Ascentis-accredited provision should contact the Ascentis development team: marketing@ascentis.co.uk or call Simon Hilton (Business Development Manager) on 01524 845046.

Customised Provision includes:-

A range of different accreditation options to suit every organisation and method of delivery.  

  • Quality Assurance of an organisations Training Programmes (The Quality Stamp)
  • Attendance and Achievement Certificates
  • Fully Accredited Qualifications (Awards, Certificates and Diplomas) at all Levels

Some of the recently accredited qualifications include:-

  • Continuing Professional Development
  • Diversity Through Citizenship
  • Community Education Mentoring
  • Countryside Stewardship
  • Curriculum Enrichment Programme
  • Progression Units
Plus many more subjects – please see the list of Ascentis' latest Customised Qualifications.

How to Become a Centre and Register a learner

A centre must ensure it is registered as a full Ascentis centre to develop or deliver Ascentis Customised Provision prior to registration of learners. To become an Ascentis Centre please contact the Accreditation Unit at Ascentis who will provide you with more information and send out the application forms (details below).

For all subjects within Customised Provision a learner may be registered with Ascentis electronically or via the Learner Registration Form (LRF) this can be found in the procedural 
documents section.  Please contact the Ascentis Accreditation Team email accreditation@ascentis.co.uk or telephone 01524 845046 for information on how to register via electronic means.

Learners must be registered with Ascentis within 7 weeks of commencement of a programme.