AQA have acquired Training Qualifications UK, it has been announced, in a deal which will see it seek to re-establish itself in the vocational awarding market.
The takeover will see all of TQUK’s awarding, international and end-point assessment functions, worth £3.5 million in the 2021/22 financial year, transfer to the awarding giant in a move which AQA described as “a major step into vocational qualifications.”
TQUK has just shy of 290 qualifications on offer from level 1 to level 6 in a range of sectors including health and social care, leadership and management, education and hospitality.
It received EPA approval in 2017 and currently offers EPA services for 29 standards, according to the latest register of end point assessment organisations.
Ofqual’s latest vocational qualifications data puts TQUK and 10th in the ranking of the number of certificates awarded between October 2021 and September 2022 having made 105,180 awards over that period. AQA was ranked 13th over that period having awarded 81,170 certificates.
