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• General Responsibilities
• Registration
• Assessment of Learners
• Administration
• Approval

General Responsibilities

The centre will only deliver and assess units for which they have appropriate staff and physical resources.

The Centre will co-operate fully with ABP to ensure delivery of the Qualification(s) to the required standards. Approval may be withdrawn at ABP’s sole discretion in accordance with these General Terms and Conditions.Prior to Approval being granted, the Centre may only recruit learners for ABP courses through publicity clearly annotated ‘subject to ABP approval’. Approval will only be official when confirmed in writing by ABP and will be limited by the terms of that confirmation.

The Centre will not make use of any Intellectual Property owned by ABP without the latter’s express consent. Copies of publicity/marketing literature related to the promotion of any Approved Qualification(s) are subject to written approval by ABP prior to being released to the public. Use of ABP trademark(s), logo and/or any associated branding must be pre-approved by ABP in writing.

The Centre will regularly monitor, review and evaluate its operations relating to qualification delivery and assessment. Findings of reviews, to be held at least once a year, will be shared with ABP on request. The Centre will implement quality assurance systems in accordance with the terms of written confirmation of Approval of any Qualification(s) by ABP and any requirements communicated to the Centre by ABP officers.

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Registration and Certification of Learners

All information given to ABP for the purposes of registration and certification will be complete, accurate and submitted in accordance with stipulated time scales. Payment of learner registration and service fees will be made in accordance with ABP requirements.

The Centre is solely responsible for ensuring prompt certification of learners through the timely submission of learner details and associated payments to ABP.

The Centre will implement and operate accessible and consistent assessment policies and procedures for all learners registered for any Qualification(s).

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Assessment of Learners

Assessment procedures operated by the Centre will be open, fair and free from bias.

Queries about Qualification or Unit specifications, assessment guidance or related ABP information will be resolved and recorded within identified service levels.

The Centre will make available to ABP, any material, record, information or documents associated with the delivery of the Qualification(s) and allow access to such materials, any premises and/or learners associated with any Qualification(s) for the purpose of auditing and external verification.

Internal assessment

Most higher level ABP qualifications are internally assessed and externally verified. Providers of internally assessed ABP programmes make a commitment to ensuring those responsible for delivering, assessing and internally quality assuring the programmes possess appropriate knowledge, skills and understanding.

When a student has successfully achieved all the learning outcomes of an internally assessed programme, the centre must complete the student achievement form. This records performance and requests certification from ABP.

External assessment

For externally assessed qualifications, centres will administer the assessments (e.g. time-constrained multi-choice tests). ABP will work with approved centres to ensure the quality and security of ABP external assessments is not compromised in any way. ABP can make ad-hoc inspection visits to all approved centres involved in administering ABP assessments.

It is the responsibility of the centre to enter students with ABP for external assessment. Centres are requested to complete and return to ABP a student exam entry form.

Single unit ABE qualifications

Learners sitting single-ABE unit qualifications (awarded by ABP) will sit examinations at the same time as ABE students. Historically, ABE exams are scheduled to take place in the first week of June and the first week of December. Deadlines for exam entries for single-ABE unit qualifications are the end of the first week in April (June session) and the end of the first week in October (December session). ABE does not offer single unit qualifications - centres should therefore enter students for single-ABE unit qualifications directly with ABP using the standard ABP student registration and exam entry forms.

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Administration

The Centre will notify ABP as soon as possible of any changes which may affect the Centre’s ability to meet the Approved Centre criteria.

The Centre will keep a complete copy of this Application, any relevant Proposal and the written confirmation of Approval for any Qualification for the lifetime of that Qualification.

The Centre will retain a copy of all learner assessment and internal verification records for a period of three years following certification of a learner’s completion of any Qualification(s).

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Approval of Centres

Approval may be withdrawn where ABPs external verifier finds evidence scrutinised on visits does not match the evidence stated to be available on this application.

If Approval is withdrawn for any reason, the Centre will be solely responsible for ensuring that learners registered with the Centre are not adversely affected and that learners are kept fully informed of the situation and the options open to them. The Centre accepts that no learner will have redress against ABP in these circumstances.

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