Welcome to this blog

If you already know what the TQS is, and you’re interested in achieving it, then this is definitely a blog for you. Welcome!

If you’re new to the TQS – the Training Quality Standard – then you’re also welcome.

There’s a lot of interest in the TQS in the UK right now. Further education colleges, learning providers and, more recently, Higher Education organisations, are working with it and looking to become certificated.

I spend my time helping organisations in the post-compulsory education world to become more business-focused and more business-orientated and, yes, doing what they need to do to achieve the TQS.

Finding the right place to start with the TQS is a challenge. Perhaps the place to begin is with the standard itself. Perhaps you’d like to hear about how to manage the development journey leading to assessment. Perhaps, and perhaps not.

What I find that people really want to know about are the problems, potential disasters and pitfalls. That’s why I’m starting the blog by dealing with the five biggest mistakes people make when they’re writing their applications for assessment – and, of course, I’ll be offering some guidance on how to avoid them.

Come back soon to see what these mistakes are.

Come back soon to ensure you avoid making them yourself.