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The Seven Fish and Shellfish VRQs

1. Seafood Smoking.

2. Fish and shellfish Product Knowledge

3. Fish and chip operations

4. Fishmonger Skills.

5. Seafood Quality Assessment

6. Bivalve Purification.

7. Filleting and hand preparation - on hold

Master list of Units that make up the various VRQs

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Fish and Shellfish NVQs = Improve Proficiency Qualifications.

Available at level 2 as an Award, certificate, Diploma and Apprenticeship.

Award - 501/2054/2.

Certificate - 501/1903/5

Diploma - 501/2050/5

Apprenticeship - click here

England, Wales and Northern Ireland - offer the new IPQ format qualifications.

Scotland (SQA) offer the more traditional SVQ format fish and shellfish qualification.
The Library Guides - Fish and Shellfish VRQs

 
  • Improve Vocational Qualifications are nationally recognised qualifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland;
  • There are Six VRQs in fish and shellfish (see left),
    • these VRQs are at Level 3 ;
  • They are are all Awards, ranging in size from 10 to 12 credits;
  • These are not replacements for NVQs but are a new type of qualification unique to the food manufacturing industry;
  • Ideally suited for delivery by a training provider, college or Seafood Academy recognised trainer.

Information leaflets Documents DVDs and Videos Presentations

Improve Vocational Qualifications are designed for delivery in a learning environment rather than a workplace. They usually combine Underpinning Knowledge (UK) units with Vocational Skills (VS) units, to make up a qualification or programme that contains both knowledge and opportunities to demonstrate practical skills. They are similar to Improve Proficiency Qualifications and may share some Underpinning Knowledge units

There are four types of units that make up Improve's Qualification structure. The image below shows that the work-based proficiency qualification is made up of two or three types of units - Occupational Skills (OS), Occupational Knowledge (OK), Underpinning Knowledge (UK)that combine the work-based skills (OS) and work-based knowledge (OK) with any appropriate underlying principles (UK) of a process to produce a qualification that is fit for purpose.

Combining the Underpinning Knowledge units with the appropriate Vocational Skills (VS) units can lead to a Vocationally Related Qualification (VRQ). This type of qualification is ideally suited to College or training provider delivery outside of the workplace.

 

 

18 new units have been written to support the seven new qualifications.

Five of these new units are Level 3 underpinning knowledge units that will eventually be included in the IPQ framework for workbased qualifications.

 

 
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