Part 1: Skills and Education for Work Technical education qualifications Section 10: Application of accreditation requirement in relation to technical education qualifications
This section amends section 138 of ASCL 2009 to ensure that individual technical education qualifications may not be subject both to accreditation by Ofqual and approval by the Institute under their respective powers in ASCL 2009. It does this by:
taking a qualification out of scope for accreditation by Ofqual if it is a technical education qualification that has been approved by the Institute or if the Institute has notified Ofqual that approval is being considered but a decision has not yet been made.
requiring that where the Institute has notified Ofqual that an approval is being considered, it must also notify Ofqual of its decision.