What are national vocational qualifications (NVQs)?
NVQs are nationally defined occupational standards. They assess a person’s ability to do a job to a certain standard and there are no educational requirements to doing an NVQ. One of the benefits of NVQs is that unlike a lot of other qualifications they don’t require the recollection of large amounts of information. The only requirement is that you must be actually doing the job you are being assessed in and be competent in it.
