Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012
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Authority to determine standards of knowledge, skill or competence for awards. |
49.— (1) The Authority shall determine the standards of knowledge, skill or competence to be acquired, and where appropriate, demonstrated, by a learner before an award may be made by the Authority or by a provider to which, under section 53 , authority to make an award has been delegated. | |
(2) The Authority shall have regard to the Framework in determining the standards referred to in subsection (1). | ||
(3) The Authority may, in determining the standards referred to in subsection (1), determine different standards for different awards or different classes of award. | ||
(4) The Authority may consult with an awarding body before determining standards under subsection (1) for a joint award of the Authority and that awarding body to be made under a joint awarding arrangement between the Authority and that awarding body. | ||
(5) The Authority shall publish, in such form and manner as it thinks appropriate (including on the internet), the standards determined under subsection (1). | ||
(6) The Authority may, at any time, amend the standards determined under subsection (1). |