Boards and steering groups

Awarding Body Forum (ABF)

Purpose and objectives

The purpose of the Forum is to keep e-skills UK, the Regulatory Authorities and Awarding Bodies up-to-date with each other's activities generally. There is a particular emphasis on the Sector Skills Agreement (our plan for addressing the skills issues of the sector) and the Sector Qualifications Strategy. The Forum also acts as a vehicle to discuss future qualification developments and ongoing operational issues related to the delivery, assessment and verification of S/NVQs.

Context

The remit of the Forum includes those sectors for which e-skills UK is the Sector Skills Council (IT User, IT professional and Telecoms) and also Contact Centres for which e-skills UK acts as the Standards Setting Body.

The Forum meets four times a year.

Forum members

The Awarding Body Forum brings together representatives from the following:

Regulatory Authorities -

Qualification and Curriculum Authority, Scottish Qualifications Authority (Accreditation), Welsh Assembly Government (DELLS)

Awarding Bodies -

British Computer Society, City & Guilds, Edexcel, Education Development International, ICAA, National Open College Network, NCC Education, NCFE National Awarding Body, OCR, Scottish Qualification Authority (Awarding), and The Learning Machine Ltd.

Last modified: 11 Dec 2006