Employer Benefits

The BTEC Advanced Award and Certificate programmes are fully accredited and purpose designed for local government. Each qualification offers the following benefits to you, as an employer/sponsor:

Harnessing potential

  • extra capacity at the core team leader/first line manager level that:
    • generates improved responsiveness and support for higher management
    • supports partnership initiatives aimed at building your authority's capacity to deliver enhanced local services

Demonstrable effectiveness

  • demonstrable training effectiveness and value from budgets as candidates achieve nationally applicable learning outcomes
  • reliable learning outcomes and assessment criteria that are subject to both centre and external verification procedures
  • consistent learning outcomes and assessment criteria that help establish standards and offer future measures for promotion and recruitment
  • added value from an assessment strategy specifically designed to achieve workplace improvements through a series of momentum driving and motivational bite-size activities and assignments
  • programme designed to boost the likelihood of successful completion by offering a rewarding and varied learning experience

Flexibility and convenience

  • a continuous programme that accepts registrations at any time from a single candidate upwards - this means that there are no delays waiting for numbers to make up an economic training group or any restrictions due to academic timetables
  • no automatic loss of productivity or work flow disruption while participants take time off to attend scheduled internal/external courses
  • flexibility to organise any work time allowed for study around work priorities

Proven training strategy

  • reliable and flexible training strategies within a clearly structured programme and supportive learning environment
  • supports the National e-Service Delivery Standards (Human Resources)
  • solid motivational foundation for participants to progress to higher level qualifications
  • learning that supports current and prospective role objectives
  • specific support and activity features that engage with the workplace, such as:
    • personal study plans to establish learning goals and set target time-frames
    • feedback and investigative activities
    • work practice analysis
    • an online discussion forum where participants can network, learn from the experiences of others, feel part of a learning community - and bring back ideas to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the workplace.
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