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Qualification of the Month

NOCN Qualifications in IT user skills (ITQ) (QCF)

  • NOCN Level 1 Award/Certificate/Diploma in IT user skills (ITQ) (QCF)
  • NOCN Level 2 Award/Certificate/Diploma in IT user skills (ITQ) (QCF)
  • NOCN Level 3 Award/Certificate/Diploma in IT user skills (ITQ) (QCF)

The suite of NOCN ITQ qualifications aims to equip individuals with the IT user skills needed for full participation in employment and society.

ITQ units can be gained across a range of situations and credit achieved can be taken by learners from school to college, from training programmes to the workplace, until the learner has achieved a full ITQ qualification. The suite of ITQ qualifications recognises employers‟ needs for ICT qualifications that reflect real-world skills, and the challenges of work-place learning.

They enable recognition of the skills that employers want across the range of levels, have been successfully piloted in a wide range of companies and organisations, and are now a part of mainstream provision. They enable learning providers to target teaching and equipment resource effectively and use flexible approaches to assessment and delivery that ensure all learning counts towards a qualification, wherever it takes place

Please click here to download the qualification guide

Guidance for Internal Verifiers, Approved Internal Verifiers and Quality Reviewers on the NOCN ITQs will be available shortly.

The minimum age for access to these qualification is 14 years and over.