- It is essential that all Trident Awards approved centres comply at all times with all the requirements in the LASER (Trident Awards) Centre Agreement, Centre Handbook, Examination Handbook, Qualification Specifications, and other requirements as specified.
- After approval, please read the Centre Recognition Quality Risk Assessment Report for your organisation and action all conditions and recommendations. This will be monitored and checked by Trident Awards.
- As part of Trident Awards quality assurance processes, you will receive at least one unannounced visit within six months of the date of your centre’s approval, and then further unannounced visits throughout your approval. Your first announced visit will be within a year of approval, and then further announced visits throughout your approval. We may also send a ‘mystery shopper’ to any of your courses at any time.
- Log into the secure area of the Trident Awards web site (Centre Login button above) to access information regarding guidance, examinations, Qualification Specifications and forms. The login information is in your welcome letter.
- Log into the Trident Awards Quartz Web Portal (Quartz Web Portal Login button above) using your unique username and password, to register your courses and learners. Please email us if you would like additional centre administrator accounts set up to access the web portal – please do not pass your own log in details to anyone else.
- All the SIA requirements for trainers and delivery of qualifications can be found in both the SIA’s Introduction to Learning Leading Towards Licence-linked Qualifications Requirements for Awarding Organisations/Bodies and Training Providers, December 2014 (available in the secure area of the Trident Awards website and on the SIA web site) and in the Trident Awards Qualification Specifications themselves. All heads of centres and trainers must be familiar with all these requirements.
- All trainers working for your organisation must read the Qualification Specifications relevant to the qualifications they are delivering. These are available in the secure area of the Trident Awards website.
- All staff working for your organisation must read and understand the Centre Handbook and Examination Handbook which are available in the secure area of the Trident Awards website.
- Within the secure area of the Trident Awards website you will find a booklet for the SADS unit of the Upskilling qualification. This must be given to all learners registered for this qualification, as part of their training with you.
- Please remember that if you are not using distance learning to deliver the permitted parts of qualifications, your delivery hours must be longer to take account of this time. Details can be found in every Qualification Specification and the SIA’s Introduction to Learning Leading Towards Licence-linked Qualifications Requirements for Awarding Organisations/Bodies and Training Providers, December 2014.
- Trident Awards can provide you with an easy to administer and effective assessment tool to evidence that your learners meet the SIA required minimum levels of English – click here for more details.
- Trident Awards can offer training in a wide range of areas including Invigilation, Tutor Assessing, Internal Quality Assurance, Standardisation, and Administration. Please contact us if you are interested in any training.
- The home page of our web site will always display our current emergency number. This should be used if you are delivering a course out of our office hours and have an emergency you need to tell us about (eg if the venue has to be changed at the last minute, etc).
- Trident Awards is committed to supporting its approved centres and their training requirements. Please do speak to us at any time if you have any queries, or are unsure about any of our requirements.