have your say

Ofqual consultation event – Have your say

3rd December 2010

Time of Change: Ofqual

Ofqual: new regulator

Officially created eight months ago

Confirmed by the Government in DfE White Paper and in BIS strategy documents

Currently concentrating on three aspects of our work

- the way we regulate awarding organisations

- our role as an economic regulator

- our role in complaints and appeals

Today is for you to have your say.

Regulating qualifications to secure standards and value

Why regulate?

What are we regulating?

How will we regulate?

What does this mean for you?

Why we regulate

What we regulate

Regulating in a time of change

Better principles for regulation– Transparent– Targeted– Consistent– Accountable– Proportionate

Our principles for regulation

We will:-

– Act in accordance with the principles of better regulation– Base our decisions on evidence– Target our interventions in response to our assessment of risk

posed to standards, learners, efficiency and public confidence– Make sure our staff have the skills and knowledge to undertaken

their roles– Engage with each organisation we regulate in a fair and open

manner– Use proportionate enforcement sanctions where necessary– Contribute evidence-based advice on policy options that affect

regulated activities and organisations

Our principles for regulation

Awarding organisations will:-

– Make sure they behave in accordance with the conditions of recognition to which it is subject, and that it has the expertise and resources to do so

– Be accountable for the quality and standards of the qualifications it awards and the efficiency with which it operates

– Respect our role as a regulator and cooperate with us– Take remedial action if things go wrong and ensure we are

informed promptly

Recognition criteria

Governance

Resources

Operations

Quality assurance

Financial viability

Efficiency

Recognition conditions

Secure efficiency and value for money

Securing standards

Authority with complaints and appeals

Your views

Ask, challenge, discuss– Us to you– You to us

We aren’t looking for formal answers today– Ideas– Themes– Opinions

Ofqual consultation event – Have your say

3rd December 2010

Thank you!

Any questions?

What next?

Consultations close on 31 January 2011

Review of responses

Final report

Roll out of new processes from April