Benefits to Learners:

•  Provide quality assured learning and qualifications.
•  Enhance access – “Education for All”.
•  Provide opportunities for recognition of all abilities.
• Provide record of lifelong learning.

Benefits to Employees:

• Recognition of on-job learning.
• Enable progression at higher levels and within formal education system.
• Attain qualifications that employers demand.

Benefits to Training Providers:

• External verification of quality.
• International and regional credibility
•  Enhanced credit transfer/recognition decisions
• Conditions favouring cooperative and collegial inter-provider arrangements.

Benefits to Employers:

•  Access to employees qualified to world-class standards.
•  Enables ‘formal’ utilisation of quality assured company learning programmes
•  Provision of central record of learner attainments.