{"id":61611,"date":"2015-09-17T09:45:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T09:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9fece17af462475accf6494bb387899f"},"modified":"2015-09-17T09:45:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T09:45:04","slug":"news-story-ofqual-to-introduce-new-regulated-qualifications-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=61611","title":{"rendered":"News story: Ofqual to introduce new Regulated Qualifications Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The RQF will be introduced on 1 October 2015. <\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/reforming-regulation-of-vocational-qualifications\">speech at the Skills and Employability Summit 2015 in London today<\/a>, Jeremy Benson, Executive Director of Vocational Qualifications, describes how the RQF will provide a single, simple system for cataloguing all qualifications regulated by Ofqual. <\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/regulated-qualifications-framework-a-postcard\">\u2018postcard\u2019 explaining the RQF<\/a> is being released to support today\u2019s announcement, along with the findings of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/after-the-qcf-a-new-qualifications-framework\">associated consultation<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The changes mean that Ofqual\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/general-conditions-of-recognition\">General Conditions of Recognition<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/guidance-to-the-general-conditions-of-recognition\">Guidance<\/a> have been revised and will be in force from 1 October 2015, including requirements on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/total-qualification-time-criteria\">qualification size<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/qualification-and-component-levels\">level<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ofqual is today (17 September 2015) announcing arrangements for the introduction of its new Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}