You must assign an Internal Quality Assurer (IQA), who’ll be responsible for:
- Maintaining their CPD to ensure they have a qualification and/or recent occupational experience in the subject area they are quality assuring. Further details of occupational competence requirements can be found in the relevant qualification specification
- Maintaining their CPD to ensure that they have an internal quality assurance qualification. Where no internal quality assurance qualifications are held, centres must provide adequate staff development to ensure IQAs are working to national standards (e.g. attendance at our IQA training events).
- Sampling assessments to ensure they’re carried out to the same standard by all Assessor(s)
- Ensuring Assessor(s) are trained and hold appropriate qualifications
- Identifying training needs and providing training as appropriate
- Completing and authorising certificate claim forms via the Portal.
Where an IQA is also an Assessor of the qualification, their assessment decisions must be internally quality assured by a different IQA.
The IQA can be the same person as the Programme Contact.