Quality Endorsement Licence

QEL Downloads

• QEL Application Form
• QEL Brochure
• QEL Course Notification Form

Quality Endorsement Licence (QEL)

The QEL is aimed at organisations wanting to develop bespoke training course programmes for their learners or employees that fall outside of the regulated qualifications market. Our QEL allows for a highly flexible approach that provides freedom for you to develop courses and training programmes that completely meet the needs of your customers or employees.

• Read more about QEL here

  What is it? 
  
  The Open College Network West Midlands Quality Endorsement Licence (QEL) provides a highly valued ‘quality mark’ and external endorsement of an organisations own internal training and development programmes. The QEL has been designed to meet the needs of Employers and Providers offering internal and bespoke training courses that fall outside of the regulated qualification market. It provides a highly flexible approach allowing freedom for you to develop courses that meet the needs of your customers or employees.
  
  

  Benefits to your organisation

  • National recognition for your training programmes
  • Dual badge certificates with your company logo
  • You will own your course content
  • Enhance your own brand by aligning with a national Awarding Organisation
  • Flexibility to tailor bespoke programmes to fit your business needs
  • Add additional courses to your portfolio at no extra cost
  • Organisational review to ensure robust policies and procedures.

  How does it work?
  
  QEL is available to organisations that want:

  • Recognition for their high quality internal training programmes
  • To transfer their current non-regulated provision from another Awarding Organisation’s Scheme

  
  Open College Network West Midlands will review your organisation against the requirements of the Standards within the QEL, which comprises the following elements:
  
  Standard 1 – Leadership and Management
  Standard 2 – Quality of Resources
  Standard 3 – Quality Assurance
  Standard 4 – Learner Support
  Standard 5 – Legislation
  Standard 6 – Quality of Courses and Assessment
  
  

  QEL providers

  • Operate with integrity
  • Maintain high standards of delivery
  • Continually monitor and improve their practice
  • Work in partnership with Open College Network West Midlands

  Through this scheme, we support organisations by recognising good practice of the existing internal training and skills programmes being provided. For example, a bespoke Induction Programme, specific short courses or longer ongoing training programmes that do not lead to nationally recognised accreditation or qualifications. Whether you are setting up new training programmes or have well established programmes our QEL provides an excellent standard to ensure you have robust policies and quality systems in place.
  
  

  What does it cost?
  
  Open College Network West Midlands has a simple and transparent pricing model that provides flexibility for all types and sizes of organisations, irrespective of the number of courses offered or the number of learners training is delivered to. With our straightforward approach to pricing organisations have flexibility to respond to local, national and customer needs.
  
  Our QEL is available for both national and international provision to organisations based in the UK or internationally.
  
  

  UK QEL Prices

  • QEL Approval Fee - £250 (This is a one-off non refundable fee. This amount will be deducted from the first year Licence Fee)
  • Annual Licence Fee - £1,500
  • QEL Registration/Certification - £2 per learner

  
  Package deals for QEL Licence Fee for existing Open College Network Recognised Centres

  • Annual Licence Fee - £1,000 for Centres paying £660 annual Centre Recognition fees
  • Annual Licence Fee - £1,200 for Centres paying £330 annual Centre Recognition fees

  
  International QEL Prices

  • QEL Approval Fee - £500 (This is a one-off non refundable fee. This amount will be deducted from the first year Licence Fee)
  • Annual Licence Fee - £2,000
  • QEL Registration/Certification - £15 per learner

   

  Further Information
  
  Please view or download our QEL brochure from the downloads section of this page.

  For a full copy of the Standard, Guidance and Approval Form or for more information, please contact our Quality Team on 01902 624 239 or e-mail your interest/enquiry to enquiries@opencollnet.org.uk

QEL+ Downloads

• QEL+ Application Form
• QEL+ Brochure

Quality Endorsement Licence Plus (QEL+)

The QEL+ is aimed at organisations that offer specific and/or specialised accreditation/audit services to a particular industry, sector or specialism, where a regulated qualification is not required. As a national Awarding Organisation our QEL+ provides a highly flexible framework and approach for your business to design and deliver your own audit and accreditation services to your customers.

• Read more about QEL+ here

  What is it? 
  
  The Open College Network West Midlands Quality Endorsement Licence Plus (QEL+) is our highly valued ‘quality mark’ of trust that provides external endorsement to organisations that offer their own audit/accreditation services within a particular area of specialism or sector.
  
  Open College Network West Midlands have over 30 years’ experience in delivering flexible education, training and learning opportunities across a broad spectrum of organisations and sector areas. Therefore we know which policies, procedures and practices are expected from an organisation that cares about delivering an outstanding service to its customers.
  
  
  

  Benefits to your organisation

  • Dual badged Certificates of achievement for audited organisations
  • Added value to your audit / accreditation programme through being Quality Endorsed by Open College Network West Midlands a nationally
    recognised Awarding Organisation
  • Flexibility to design and deliver bespoke audit/accreditation services.
  • Your policies and procedures will be reviewed and refined so that they are robust, which will save you time, money and resources in the future.

   

  How does it work?
  
  QEL+ is available to organisations that want:

  • External recognition for their particular audit / accreditation scheme
  • To transfer an existing external endorsement scheme from another provider

  Open College Network West Midlands will review your organisation against the requirements of the Standards within the QEL+, which comprises the following elements:
  
  Standard 1 – Leadership and Management
  Standard 2 – Quality of Resources
  Standard 3 – Quality Assurance
  Standard 4 – Organisation Support
  Standard 5 – Legislation
  Standard 6 – Quality Assessment/Audit
  
  

   

  QEL+ providers will need to:

  • Operate with specific quality guidelines
  • Maintain high standards of delivery
  • Continue to improve and monitor their offer and delivery
  • Work in partnership with Open College Network West Midlands

   

  Through this scheme, we support organisations by recognising good practice of organisational and industry audit/accreditation services being provided. Our QEL+ provides an excellent standard to ensure you have robust policies and quality systems in place to give your customers added confidence in the quality of service you provide.

   

  
  What does it cost?
  
  Open College Network West Midlands provides a simple and transparent pricing model that provides flexibility for all types and sizes of organisations, irrespective of the number of courses offered or the number of learners training is delivered to. With our straightforward approach to pricing, organisations have flexibility to respond to local, national and customer needs.
  
  The QEL+ consists of an Annual Licence Fee and a charge for each certificate required. Contact a member of our Business Development Team to discuss your requirements and we will provide you with a quotation.
  
  
  

  Further Information
  
  For a full copy of the Standard, Guidance and Approval Form or for more information, please contact our Business Development Team on 01902 624 239 or e-mail your interest/enquiry to enquiries@opencollnet.org.uk