What is an Awarding Body?
An Awarding Body is a national organisation, approved by QCA, who control the quality of NVQ delivery, and who actually issue the NVQ Certificate. The main awarding bodies are: City and Guilds – http://www.city-and-guilds.co.uk/ OCR – http://www.ocr.org.uk/ There are many other awarding bodies, information can be found on the QCA website http://www.qca.org.