2007 ITQ Conference

Conference Sponsors

Silver

City and Guilds
www.cityandguilds.com/itq

City & Guilds is the UK’s leading vocational awarding body, offering more than 500 qualifications over 28 industry sectors, through 8500 approved centres in around 100 countries worldwide. Our qualifications, which span nine levels from basic skills to the highest standards of professional achievement, are designed to help people and businesses achieve growth, prosperity and success.

City & Guilds ITQ makes sure that learners are prepared for using IT at work and at home. As all of the e-Quals 07 IT User units are mapped 100% to the equivalent ITQ units, e-Quals helps prepare learners for the qualification.

As well as the quality service given by our External Verifiers, City & Guilds provides extra support to centres with the ITQ Update newsletter, which is often the first place to find information on LSC and e-skills UK ITQ initiatives.

SmartScreen.co.uk, our online learning portal, supports ITQ at all three levels with recommended book lists, hand outs and activities.

Edexcel
www.edexcel.org.uk

Edexcel, a Pearson company, is the UK's largest awarding body offering academic and vocational qualifications and testing to more than 25,000 schools, colleges, employers and other places of learning here and in over 100 countries worldwide. We deliver 9.4 million exam scripts each year, with 3 million marked onscreen in 2005. Our qualifications include GCSE, AS and A Level, GNVQ, NVQ and the BTEC suite of vocational qualifications from entry level to BTEC Higher National Diplomas and Foundation Degrees. We also manage the data collection, marking and distribution of the National Curriculum Tests at Key Stages 2 and 3, and the Year 7 Progress Tests.

Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
www.dti.gov.uk

Bronze

Association of Learning Providers (ALP)
www.learningproviders.org.uk

The ALP is the leading trade association for vocational learning providers in Britain. The majority of its 430 members are independent private, not-for-profit and voluntary sector training organisations. Membership is open to any provider committed to quality vocational learning and it includes over 60 FE colleges involved in work based learning.

National Open College Network (NOCN)
www.nocn.org.uk

Last modified: 01 Feb 2008