Continuing professional development for National Qualifications
Why continuing professional development (CPD) is important
CPD improves understanding of our qualifications and assessments and enhances the learning experience for staff and learners.
Training can become outdated and maintaining or upgrading knowledge can:
- enhance performance
- support career progression
- ensure you continue to develop the required skills and knowledge
Understanding Standards
- We offer free events and webinars - CPD certificates are available after the event - Events and webinars session 2023-24
- Candidate evidence and commentary materials are published on our Understanding Standards website - explains why evidence has or has not met assessment standards.
- Presentations providing guidance on assessment are on your subject level pages.
Course reports
Course reports have information on the performance of candidates which is useful to teachers, lecturers and assessors to prepare candidates for assessment.
These are on your subject level pages
Common questions
Some subjects produce a question and answer document available from your subject landing pages.