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April 2024 
Dear Quality Nominee,

We hope you had a restful Easter break and are now fully focused with your teams to work towards successful certification. As with last month, we want to keep this month’s newsletter focused on just three important areas of support for you.

If you have any questions about quality assurance, please contact the team via Live Chat or the Pearson Support Portal. If you are not already a member, join our QN Community where we for share the latest information and you can network with other BTEC Centres. 

Features this month include: 
  • Book on to the QN face-to-face network events.
  • Ensure lead IVs are engaging with standards verifiers.
  • Ensure Higher National students can access the survey.
  • Ensure that you have checked entries for exams and have no learners missing their entries.
Our face-to-face networking events this summer are designed for UK centres delivering BTEC Entry/Level 1 to Level 3 and the BTEC Tech Awards from 2022, and will provide you with valuable networking opportunities with other BTEC centres.

Unfortunately, we have had to start to cancel some of the venues originally listed due to low booking numbers and we apologise that we cannot fulfil each of the promised locations. The remaining locations are under weekly review, so please book your place soon. We understand how busy this time of year is, but we think these events are valuable and hope to see as many of you as possible.

Dates and venues are listed below by UK region, but please feel free to book for any location / date that is most suitable for you.

You can find full details of the content of the event on the Home of Quality Assurance Events page.
Northwest and Northern Ireland

Day

Date

Location

Venue

Time & Booking Link

Tuesday
14 May
Belfast
Glenavon House Hotel, 52 Drum Rd, Cookstown BT80 8QS
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
Monday
20 May
Manchester
Kings House Conference Centre, Kings Church, Sidney St, Manchester M1 7HB
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
Wednesday
05 June
Newcastle
Caledonian Hotel, Osborne Rd, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 2AT
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
Tuesday
11 June
Preston
Farington Lodge Hotel, Stanifield Lane, Farington, Lancashire, Preston PR25 4QR
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
Wednesday
12 June
Liverpool
Mercure Liverpool Atlantic Tower, Chapel St, Liverpool L3 9AG
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
Northeast, Yorkshire and Humber

Day

Date

Location

Venue

Time & Booking Link

Thursday
23 May
Sheffield
Mercure Sheffield Kenwood Hall, Kenwood Hall Hotel & Spa, Kenwood Rd, Nether Edge, Sheffield S7 1NQ
10:00 – 12:30 Booking Link
Monday
10 June
Leeds
Weetwood Hall Estate, Otley Rd, Weetwood, Leeds LS16 5PS
10:00 – 12:30 Booking Link
Thursday
13 June
Hull
Village Hull, Henry Boot Way, Hull HU4 7DY
10:00 – 12:30 Booking Link
East Midlands and Anglia

Day

Date

Location

Venue

Time & Booking Link

Tuesday
14 May
Peterborough
The Bull Hotel, Sure Hotel Collection Westgate, Peterborough PE1 1RB
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
Tuesday
21 May 2024
Nottingham
Mercure Nottingham Sherwood 296 Mansfield Rd, Nottingham NG5 2BT
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
Monday
10 June 2024
Northampton
Northampton Town Centre Hotel by Accor Silver St, Northampton NN1 2TA
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
West Midlands and Wales

Day

Date

Location

Venue

Time & Booking Link

Thursday
1 May
Cardiff
Clayton Hotel Cardiff, Penarth Rd, Cardiff CF10 1RH
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
Tuesday
21 May
Birmingham
The Birmingham Conference & Event Centre at Holiday Inn, Birmingham Hill St, Birmingham B5 4EW
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
Monday
03 June
Stoke
DoubleTree by Hilton Stoke Etruria Hall Festival Way, Stoke-on-Trent ST1 5BQ
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
London and Southeast 

Day

Date

Location

Venue

Time & Booking Link

Thursday
16 May
London
Thistle Holborn, 36-37 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2SD
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
Monday
20 May
Reading
Holiday Inn Reading West, Padworth Ln, Bath Rd, Reading RG7 5HT
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
Tuesday
21 May
Guildford
Guildford Harbour Hotel, 3 Alexandra Terrace, Guildford GU1 3DA
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
Tuesday
04 June
Oxford
Leonardo Royal Hotel Oxford, Godstow Rd, Wolvercote, Oxford OX2 8AL
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
Wednesday
05 June
Maidstone
Mercure Maidstone Great Danes Hotel, Hollingbourne, Maidstone ME17 1RE
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
Thursday
13 June
Portsmouth
Greene King - Farmhouse & Innlodge, Burrfields Rd, Portsmouth PO3 5HH
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
Southwest 

Day

Date

Location

Venue

Time & Booking Link

Wednesday
22 May
Bristol
DoubleTree by Hilton Bristol North, Woodlands Ln, Bradley Stoke, Bristol BS32 4JF
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
Tuesday
11 June
Exeter
Exeter Rougemont Hotel, Queen St, Exeter EX4 3SP
10:00 – 12:30
Booking Link
Bookings are to be made by quality nominees or a nominated person with a working knowledge of quality assurance.

For those unable to attend in person, we will be following up these face-to-face opportunities with online events in late June, though these will be briefer.
We are sure your teams are doing all they can to proceed with standards verification, so this is just a friendly reminder for your lead internal verifiers to work with your allocated standards verifiers possible to ensure first samples are submitted by the deadline of 15 May for BTEC Entry / Level 1 QCF, BTEC Firsts and BTEC Nationals.

Remote samples for both Standard and Enhanced control measures should be submitted via the Learner Work Transfer platform, accessed via Edexcel Online.

We are here and ready to support you through this process. Contact us if you have any questions about the standards verification process, or if you have not received an SV allocation for any BTEC programme.

The Centre Guide to Standards Verification is available to download from our BTEC quality assurance page, under useful documents.
We are excited to announce that the BTEC Higher Nationals Annual Student Survey for 2024 is now open and will be running until 10 May 2024.

Student engagement is a crucial factor in improving retention rates, lowering drop-out rates, and achieving better academic outcomes.

You can download our marketing support materials pack on HN Global with posters, email banners and social media posts to help promote the survey around your centre. Please encourage your students to complete the survey for their chance to win one of two £100 Amazon vouchers.

This is a fantastic opportunity for students to voice their opinions, so let’s work together and help shape the future of higher education!

Kind regards

Helen, Bill, Lee, Liz, Sally, & Sue
Vocational Quality Assurance Managers

Pearson Customer Services

The Lighthouse, Manchester, M50 3BF

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