Qualifications in FE Teaching, Assessment and Quality Assurance

These webpages provide information and guidance for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) providers.


This page provides information for ITE providers as follows:

Guidance documents produced by the Education and Training Foundation for ITE qualifications

ETF guidance documents

The Education and Training Foundation has issued the key documents for the following:

Qualifications in Education and Training 

Assessment and Quality Assurance qualifications

Minimum Core Guidance 

These are the standard reference documents for the relevant qualifications. More information including downloads of the actual new documents and implementation advice is available from the links below. 

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Qualifications in Education and Training

Information on Further Education sector teaching qualifications.
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Assessment and Quality Assurance qualifications

Information on Further Education sector Assessment and Quality Assurance qualifications.
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Minimum Core Guidance

Details of the Minimum Core requirements in teaching qualifications.