National Vocational Qualifications are alternate qualifications for students seeking hands-on technical training in fields such as healthcare, medicine, finance, engineering, IT and others. NVQs offer students different work opportunities that allow them to enter the work environment directly with effective practical skills. Students are trained via campus training facilities and go through a series of workshops that aim to increase the technical skills as opposed to theoretical and textbook skills as in traditional university degrees.

Students are assessed based on their work portfolio that includes the range of practical assignments and tasks completed. Also, individual instructors will monitor each student’s individual efforts in completing tasks and assess them based on their efficiency in problem solving, innovation, multitasking and management as well as other criteria.

There are different levels for NVQs and they are:

Entry level: Fit for students with little or no knowledge of the field
Level 1: Introductory work-based pathway
Level 2: Includes more complicated tasks and assignments with teamwork and individual participation
Level 3: Students become more independent at this level and tasks become more difficult and they include a vaster space of possibilities
Level 4: This level includes the preparation of roles on a managerial level and also enable student to seek technical employment
Level 5: Highest level and incorporates the most complexity for a particular area of work. Students will be able to gain a deeper understanding of their line of work

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