Services to Business at Wakefield College are delighted to hold the Training Quality Standard.

The Training Quality Standard is a prestigious achievement that can only be attained by the best colleges, providers and employers.

It is an assessment framework which upon achievement demonstrates the ability to deliver high quality training and development.

The Training Quality Standard mark shows that the organisations certificated understand and exceed employers’ needs.

It is designed to recognise and celebrate the best organisations delivering training and development solutions.

It accredits those organisations who can demonstrate excellence in delivering training solutions to employers.

Following a rigorous assessment Wakefield College achieved this prestigious standard with excellence in Freight, Logistics and Warehousing, becoming the first provider in the North of England to achieve with this specialism.

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www.trainingqualitystandard.co.uk

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The aim of the Training Quality Standard is to create an assessment framework and process through which the best organisations providing and delivering training and development solutions to employers can be recognised and marked out.

To this end, the Standard assesses and, where appropriate, certificates organisations for their (1)responsiveness to employers, (2) excellence in delivering training, (3) commitment to continuous improvement, and (4) specialisation around industry sectors.



The Learning and Skills Council has invested in the development of the Training Quality Standard to create a credible national mark which employers can follow to access responsive and relevant training and development provision. In doing so, it is expected that the Training Quality Standard will stimulate significant improvements in the quality of training and development provision, so that it delivers greater impact for employers, greater value for the taxpayer, and recognition for those
delivering to a high standard.

The Training Quality Standard has the potential to make an impact through:

Increasing employer confidence in purchasing training.
36% of employers don’t buy external training provision. Of those that do, 34% find it “sometimes,” “often” or “very” difficult to source a good quality training provider. In either case, the creation of a rigorously accredited, national badge has the potential to raise confidence – employers who train say that a successful Standard will encourage them to arrange more training overall, and with external provision specifically.

Cut employers’ cost of sourcing and taking delivery of training.
Employers spend an estimated £5.1bn in managing training activity. Creation of a rigorously accredited, national badge has the potential to reduce the cost involved in identifying a quality provider, and to eliminate confusion over respective roles. Employers say that a successful Standard would be highly likely to “save time and money in making decisions”.

Increasing the return-on-investment of buying training provision.
The longer term gain will be through increasing the quality of training providers’ delivery. By recognising the best provision we have, and providing a framework that all providers can use to benchmark and develop against, the Training Quality Standard can transform quality on the supply-side.

The Standard has been tested through survey research to ensure that the approach is recognised as valuable by employers. Once the concept has been explained, 92% of employers report that they would find it ‘quite useful’ or ‘very useful’ in helping them to source training provision.