TQS Assessment – Seize the opportunity!

Just about every one in the FE world will have heard, by now, that the deadline concerning conditional certification has been changed. You now have more time to gain conditional certification than you thought you did.

I’ve already had ‘phone calls from people in colleges saying:

“It’s great. We can take things at a more leisurely pace now.”

I have no problem with this.

After all, people have always been able to choose the pace at which they travel the road to TQS certification.

However, before putting the TQS on the back burner it’s worth remembering that TQS success is not just about having sound systems and processes set up. It’s about operating them, too.

Take your time

You need time – and quite a bit of it – to do justice to your application.
Our customers tend to take between four and seven months to write their applications.

Why?

It’s because they change things about their practice as they go along. They also give themselves time to review, edit, and then revise their applications – often more than once.

You will get a lot more out of the development process if you take your time with it. The benefits you gain will be more far reaching, and systems and processes you set up will be more robust, if you take the time to make sure they work and that the deliver the outcomes and benefits you are looking for.

So what should you be doing now the heat is off?

Put the heat back on.

Stick to your original TQS schedule for getting your application written.

Then you will have time for all the reworks and rewrites. You’ll also have time to improve your approach to employer engagement before it comes under the assessors’ scrutiny.

See also: Goodbye to the early adopters