Awarding organisation event - May 2014 by Jane Farleigh

1. Regulatory Operations
Jane Farleigh
May 2014

2. Overview
• Key themes from today
• How we regulate now
• Regulatory strategy
• Our expectations of you
• What you can expect from us

3. Key themes from today
• Ofqual’s regulatory strategy
• What I’ve observed from today’s event:
- Malpractice
- Event notifications
- Whistleblowing

4. How we regulate now
• Tier 4 thematic review
• Statement of compliance
• Monitoring activity, investigation and targeted
enforcement
• Our approach

5. Regulatory strategy
• QCF review
• Accreditation and recognition
• Systems – RITS
• Risk-based approach

6. Regulation in balance
1. Advice and guidance to ensure
clarity of requirements
2. Risk basis to focus regulatory
activity
3. Enforcement to send clear signals
and change behaviours
1 2 3
Advice
and
Guidance
PenaltiesChecks

7. Overview of Key Changes
Advice
and
Guidance
Validity Refocused Regulatory Activity Simplified
Framework &
Better
Information
Powerful
Incentives
Recognition Accreditation
volumes
Monitoring & Enforcement
- Ensure
our policy
intent is
understood
- All
qualifications
must have
validity
argument
- At the heart
of regulation
of
qualifications
- For new
bodies
- Risk based
for new
offerings
- High stakes
- Sanction
- Adopt
sampling
within routine
audits
- Risk and random
- Through the life-cycle
- Visible enforcement
- Change QCF
- More accessible
information
made available
to users about
qualifications
- Strengthen use
of visible
incentives
- Public
admonishment
of poor practice
- Public
celebration and
pointing to good
practice

8. Our expectations of you
We expect you to review your qualification offer so that
you can ….
• retain those that are valid and reliable
• revise those that are valued but need improvement
• remove those that are neither valued nor valid

9. • Regulating through the lifecycle of qualifications
• More advice and guidance
• Strengthening regulation
• More engagement
What you can expect from us

10. Thank you!
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continue to offer these events and make
them useful for you