Guidance: External quality assurance of end-point assessments: status
Confirmed apprenticeship end-point assessments (EPAs) for standards where Ofqual provides external quality assurance.
Documents
Confirmed Ofqual quality assured end point assessments
MS Excel Spreadsheet, 25.2KB
This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.
Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need aversion of this document in a more accessible format, please email [email protected].Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.
Details
Ofqual provides External Quality Assurance (EQA) for apprenticeship EPAs. The document above shows which apprenticeship standards Ofqual provides EQA for. You can search for apprentice standards ready for delivery that have been approved by the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education on their website.
Status of Ofqual quality-assured apprenticeship end-point assessments
Ofqual has agreed to provide external quality assurance for the apprenticeship end-point assessments listed in the above document. This does not mean that that the assessment plan has been approved by the Institute for Apprenticeships and is ready for delivery.
Compliance with assessment plans
Where Ofqual provides external quality assurance for an apprenticeship end-point assessment, then all assessments for that standard must comply with our rules for end-point assessments.
Condition EPA1.1 requires an awarding organisation to comply with any requirements, and have regard to any guidance, contained in the relevant Assessment Plan for each EPA that it makes available or proposes to make available.
Under Condition EPA3.3, an awarding organisation is also required to notify Ofqual where the Assessment Plan for one of its EPAs is reviewed or amended.
An Assessment Plan is defined in Condition EPA6.4 as the version of an apprenticeship assessment plan, published under section A2(1) of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009, which is specified in a list published by Ofqual and revised from time to time.
This list is specified in the attached document “Confirmed Ofqual quality-assured apprenticeship end-point assessments”. Please note that only the versions of apprenticeship assessment plans listed in this document will meet the definition of an Assessment Plan in Condition EPA6.4. Ofqual will review any subsequent version of a plan listed below and, where appropriate, amend the list to include that subsequent version
Published 26 June 2017
Last updated 18 February 2021 + show all updates
-
Updated table of the standards we provide EQA for
-
EQA table updated
-
Removal of document ‘Status of potential Ofqual quality-assured apprenticeship endpoint assessments’, and updates to website text to reflect future transmission of apprenticeship standards to Ofqual
-
Updated to reflect change in EQA arrangements. Tables also updated for September 2020.
-
Tables updated for June 2020.
-
Tables updated for May 2020.
-
Tables updated for January 2020.
-
Tables updated for December 2019.
-
Tables updated for November 2019.
-
Tables updated – October 2019.
-
Tables updated – September 2019.
-
Tables updated – July 2019.
-
Tables further updated – May 2019
-
Tables updated – May 2019
-
Tables updated – April 2019
-
Further update to tables for January 2019
-
Tables updated for January 2019
-
Tables updated for December 2018
-
Tables updated for November 2018
-
Table updated for October 2018
-
Table updated for September 2018
-
Table updated for August 2018
-
Updated to include additional information about Ofqual-regulated EPAs.
-
Updated attached table.
-
Updated the attached table.
-
Table updated April 2018
-
Update to the status table.
-
Updated table.
-
EQA table updated.
-
Updated attached spreadsheet.
-
Update to the ‘Status of Ofqual quality-assured apprenticeship endpoint assessments’ table.
-
Updated the status document.
-
First published.
Responses