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What Qualifications Do Teaching Assistants Need?

Teaching Assistants (TAs) are key contributors to learning environments, helping pupils access the curriculum, supporting teachers, and promoting inclusive practice. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to develop your career, suitable qualifications can boost your confidence, employability, and effectiveness in school settings. This guide explains the most recognised qualification routes for Teaching Assistants, with …

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Qualifications for Personal Trainers: Everything You Must Know

What Are Personal Trainer Qualifications? Personal trainer qualifications are nationally recognised qualifications that give learners the skills, knowledge, and confidence to work safely and effectively with clients in a fitness environment. These qualifications ensure individuals understand how to plan and deliver personalised exercise programmes, support client goals and promote health and wellbeing. Focus Awards qualifications …

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Quality Assurance Qualifications for Training Providers

In vocational education and training, quality is everything. Learners, employers and regulators all expect consistency and credibility, which is why quality assurance qualifications which are often called quality assurance quals, for short are essential for training providers. These programmes give staff the knowledge and confidence to safeguard standards, improve delivery and demonstrate a real commitment …

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Show off your credentials, wherever you are, to whoever wants to see them!

Coming Soon – Attention all Focus Awards centres (and learners)… Very soon, all approved centers and their learners will be able to store all their Focus Awards qualifications, including copies of their certificates, on a brand new iOS and Android App on their phones or tablets. This is a fantastic bit of kit that is …

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Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training vs. Level 5 Diploma in Teaching (Further Education and Skills)

The Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training (DET) and the Level 5 Diploma in Teaching (Further Education and Skills) (DIT) are both designed for those aspiring to teach in the further education sector. However, they differ in several key aspects, such as the depth of content, practical teaching requirements, and the type of assessment …

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Important Announcement: Price Adjustments – Effective March 2025

At Focus Awards, we have always worked hard to ensure that the best value is given to our centres, without compromise on quality. After careful consideration, we have made the decision to increase our prices starting in March 2025. We have adjusted our pricing to ensure we are still 10% cheaper than other Awarding Organisations …

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Celebrating Achievement!

We are proud and delighted to share the great news and announce that Focus Awards’ CEO and Responsible Officer, Joshua Cole, has been awarded ‘Tier 4: Fellow’ status membership of the Awarding & Assessment Academy. This prestigious grade publicly recognises that he is one of the leading voices and practitioners in the sector. Congratulations, Joshua!

First Aid for Mental Health

You may have seen this week on our social media accounts, we have featured a Counselling post and an Awareness of First Aid for Mental Health Problems post. For this reason, our blog this week is dedicated to another mental health qualification for our approved centers to offer learners who have an interest in supporting …

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Health and Social Care in Children and Young People’s Settings

If you’ve been following our social media channels, you’ll know that we’ve been showcasing some of our amazing Health and Social Care qualifications from the sector! In light of this, we offer our approved centers qualifications that relate specifically to working with children in Health and Social Care! Read on to find out why pursuing …

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Registration and Certifications Policy Update!

Attention centres! We’re committed to ensuring we keep you updated with our revised policies and procedures. Because these often get updated regularly, it’s important to keep checking Qualitas for the latest updates. Please read on to see our latest update regarding the Registration Time Frame within the Registration and Certifications Policy. A summary of the …

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