Quality
The Open College Network Accreditation Process
The Open College Network Accreditation process has four key stages; Development, Approval, Verification and Review. The purpose of Verification within the accreditation process is to ensure the systematic quality assurance of accredited programmes, delivered by approved providers, and to enable and support the continuous improvement of the provision. Approved Centres must Quality Assure accredited programmes internally through the role of the Internal Verifier. Internal Verifiers in a Centre will have been approved to sign for the Award of Credit.
Internal Verifiers will carry out the following duties in order to ensure that:
- Assessment is appropriate, consistent, fair, transparent and does not unintentionally discriminate against candidates with disabilities.
- Tutors/assessors receive ongoing advice and support, for example, on designing assessment activities.
- Learners are clear about assessment requirements and are given opportunities to achieve against the assessment criteria.
- Learners’ work is presented in a manner that supports the moderation process.
- Evidence of learner achievement is mapped to the assessment criteria.
- Award of credit is valid, reliable and consistent.
Once all the above are in place, credit can be awarded. Internal Verifiers, who meet the minimum criteria, will be approved as authorised signatories of the Recommendation for Award of Credit (RAC will take place during the course of the academic year.) forms. External Subject Verification is a retrospective process which will take place during the course of the academic year.
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