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There are four partners in the procedure for the assessment and certification of an NVQ.

1. Candidates

Candidates who wish to obtain a certificate submit an application to an NVQ provider from the register of accredited providers. The register is published on the National Reference Point for Occupational Qualifications (NRP SLO) website.

Applicants have to meet the requirements determined in Point 2 of the relevant catalogue of standards of professional knowledge and skills: Required professional knowledge and skills and special requirements to be met by a person who wishes to obtain a vocational qualification.

Catalogues of standards of professional knowledge and skills for individual NVQs are published on the NRP SLO website.

Candidates receive all the necessary information and instructions regarding the procedure for the assessment and certification of an NVQ by the provider to whom they applied.

2. NVQs providers

Assessment and certification of NVQs are carried out by providers from the register of accredited providers.

Providers:

  • provide material conditions for the assessment and certification of an NVQ as determined by the relevant catalogue of standards of professional knowledge and skills for individual NVQs;
  • publish dates and places of assessment;
  • register candidates for assessment and certification of an NVQ and provide them with the necessary information and instructions;
  • advise candidates;
  • carry out assessment of NVQs;
  • offer administrative and technical support to assessment boards;
  • issue certificates (to candidates who pass) or notices of failure (to candidates who fail).

Dates and places of assessment are published on the NRP SLO website.

3. NVQ advisors

NVQ advisors provide advice to candidates in the development of a portfolio.

4. Assessment boards

Based on Article 19 of the National Vocational Qualifications Act, NVQs are assessed and certified by assessment boards.

Three-person (a chairperson and two members) assessment boards are appointed at the providers’ request by the Centre. All assessors must hold a valid licence issued by the Centre which has to be renewed every four years.

The register of licence holders is published on the NRP SLO website.

An assessment board first assesses a candidate’s portfolio (a representative collection of a candidate’s work) in accordance with the established criteria of assessment.

If, based on submitted documents and other evidence, the assessment board finds that a candidate meets all the requirements as determined by the relevant catalogue of standards of professional knowledge and skills, they certify an NVQ and the candidate receives a certificate which has to be issued by the provider in eight days.

If, based on submitted documents and other evidence, the assessment board finds that a candidate does not meet all requirements as determined by the relevant catalogue of standards of professional knowledge and skills, the candidate is referred to direct assessment. The assessment board notifies a candidate in writing on the scope of knowledge and skills to be assessed. The manner of direct assessment of knowledge and skills is determined in the relevant catalogue of standards of professional knowledge and skills.

The assessment board take minutes in the prescribed format. If a candidate is successful, the provider issues a Certificate of Qualification Achievement in eight days.

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