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Ofqual was established in interim form on 8 April 2008 as part of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), taking over the regulatory functions that had previously been undertaken by the QCA directly through its regulation and standards division. [3] It was always intended that Ofqual would be an entirely separate body from the QCA.
Ofqual – Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation; Ofsted – Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills in England; Office for Students (OfS) Teaching Regulation Agency
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's government, reporting to Parliament.Ofsted's role is to make sure that organisations providing education, training and childcare services in England do so to a high standard for children and students.
Examination boards in the United Kingdom (sometimes called awarding bodies or awarding organisations) are the examination boards responsible for setting and awarding secondary education level qualifications, such as GCSEs, Standard Grades, A Levels, Highers and vocational qualifications, to students in the United Kingdom.
The European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) disseminates information, experiences and good practices in the field of quality assurance (QA) in higher education to QA agencies, public authorities and higher education institutions in the European Higher Education Area. [5]
Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) Office of Rail and Road; Serious Fraud Office; Supreme Court of the United Kingdom; UK Statistics Authority; Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat)
Ofqual; Ofsted: Executive non-departmental public bodies: Office for Students; Office of the Children's Commissioner; Student Loans Company: Advisory non-departmental public bodies: School Teachers' Review Body: Other: Office of the Schools Adjudicator
The Regulated Qualifications Framework (England and Northern Ireland) is split into nine levels: entry level (further subdivided into sub-levels one to three) and levels one to eight; [4] the CQFW (Wales) has the same nine levels as the RQF and has adopted the same level descriptors for regulated (non-degree) qualifications. [2]