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2nd November 2010
Learning Light prompts The Safety Train to gain NCFE
accreditation
The Safety Train, a company which operates an e-learning training
portal aimed at covering all aspects of health & safety training,
has been granted an NCFE bespoke quality licence - making it one of
the UK's first e-learning providers to be accredited in this way.
"The NCFE licence accredits our course content," said Jonathan
Blythe, The Safety Train's Business Development Director. "At
present, we're not aware of any other e-learning provider that has
this accredited status."
Jonathan went on to explain, "The Safety Train grew from a need to
provide distance learning in health and safety-related subjects -
principally because it was proving difficult to arrange
classroom-based courses to suit the diaries of a large number of
delegates who were based throughout the UK."
"Our answer was to form The Safety Train and provide the training
via e-learning materials dealing with social care, office health and
safety and personal development. These e-learning materials are
delivered via streaming video over the web and/or via mobile phone
apps - and they offer a low cost to competency.
"Learning Light, a company which focuses on promoting the use of e-
learning and learning technologies, advised us to apply for NCFE
accreditation because they were certain that the high quality of our
courses' content would meet the NCFE's accreditation criteria -
which proved to be the case."
NCFE advisor Helen Gregory, who assesses The Safety Train - in terms
of how it produces content for its video-delivered courses; how its
learning materials interact with learners, and how it measures the
learning outcomes - commented: "I was impressed with the enthusiasm
together with professionalism of the team from The Safety Train.
"There is no doubt about the commitment of this team towards the
NCFE Investing in Quality licence. There is a clear drive to get the
course right and I look forward to working with The Safety Train
further."
Learning Light's Operations Director, David Patterson, commented:
"The Safety Train getting accreditation from NCFE illustrates how
the training industry is waking up to the potential and power of
e-learning. After many years, face-to-face trainers - whom NCFE has
been dealing with for about 150 years - are coming to view
e-learning not as a threat to their jobs but as a technology to be
embraced and exploited."
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Notes for Editors
About the NCFE
Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, NCFE is a national awarding body.
Awarding bodies design and award qualifications which recognise the
skills, knowledge and understanding achieved by a learner at a
particular level and in a particular subject. It is a registered
educational charity and a company limited by guarantee. Its
charitable aim is 'to promote and advance the education and training
of young persons and adults'.
NCFE is recognised as an awarding body by the qualification
regulators for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The regulators
are the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator (Ofqual)
in England, the Department for Children, Education, Lifelong
Learning and Skills (DCELLS) in Wales and the Council for
Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) in Northern Ireland
NCFE can trace its record of working with colleges and other
providers back to its founding organisation, the Northern Union of
Mechanics' Institutes (NUMI), established in 1848. From 1920, the
Northern Counties Technical Examinations Council (NCTEC or ‘Northern
Counties' as it became known) supplanted NUMI and, supported by nine
Northern Local Education Authorities, provided examinations for
technical colleges, schools and other centres for over 60 years
until 1981.
In 1981, the Northern Advisory Council for Further Education (NACFE),
which was established in 1947 to co-ordinate further education
provision throughout the nine LEAs, merged with the NCTEC to become
the Northern Council for Further Education. When the further
education sector was incorporated (made independent of the
government) in the early 1990s, the company felt the old name was
incompatible with its new national focus and has since then been
identified simply as NCFE with the letters no longer being an
acronym.
NCFE's IIQ licence is designed to give formal recognition to
organisations' bespoke programmes. The licence is based on six
Quality Statements which provide a quality assurance framework for
the development, delivery and evaluation of your learning
activities. For more information on our Accreditation Services,
please see the IIQ pages on our website or contact Rob Kindness from
our IIQ team on 0191 239 8083.
About The Safety Train
The Safety Train,
http://www.thesafetytrain.co.uk/ operates an e-learning training
portal aimed at covering all aspects of health & safety training. It
offers a range of social care training, personal development
training and office safety training covering: fire, first aid, food,
general care and the various provisions of the mental capacity act.
Single user prices begin at £20.
About Learning Light Ltd
Sheffield-based Learning Light is a centre of excellence in the use
of e-learning and learning technologies in the workplace. Its
knowledge base contains over 400 papers offering insights and advice
on how to use e-learning & learning technologies.
Learning Light, which operates www.e-learningcentre.co.uk one of the
leading resources on e-learning in the UK, works closely with the
Universities of Leeds and Sheffield and has undertaken a Systematic
Literature Review of the available papers on the effective use of
e-learning in conjunction with the University of Sheffield.
Learning Light occupies a unique space in the e-learning and
learning technology sector networking with:
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Suppliers of e-learning and learning technologies to support the
growth of the sector
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Buyers
seeking out learning technology solutions to improve the
effectiveness of their business or organisation
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Leading organisations worldwide who provide it with market knowledge
from around the globe
It:
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Provides unbiased and impartial advice to both suppliers and
buyers
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Hosts events and workshops that provide the platforms to impart
and gain knowledge by encouraging collaboration and sharing of
best practice
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Acts as a conduit between suppliers and buyers to forge
successful business partnerships
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Provides market intelligence and benchmarking information gained
from its many contacts and networking partners
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Provides access to research materials from leading learning
technology professionals
Further information from:
David Patterson/ Gill Broadhead, Learning Light, +44 (0)114 223 2442
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405
www.learninglight.com