GRADED QUALIFICATIONS ALLIANCE

The Graded Qualifications Alliance has been established to award qualifications to learners (young people and adults, including professionals) who successfully complete courses of study incorporating mastery learning and its associated assessment. The forms of learning assessed are neither academically-based (e.g. GCSE, university degree) nor competency-driven (e.g. NVQ, which is based on occupational mapping). Although our awards will resemble the graded qualifications familiar in the performing arts they have much wider applications in business, education, medicine and lifelong learning. Our awards form part of the Regulated Qualifications Framework.