Focus Awards

Asian College of Teachers (ACT) has the approval as a Focus Awards Centre for RQF provision and is authorised to deliver a range of qualification(s) as an approved centre of Focus Awards Regulated by Ofqual (The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation) since 2011.
Asian College of Teachers (ACT) has collaborated with Ofqual Regulated Awarding Organisation, Focus Awards, to help meet the needs of its learners in an efficient manner. Focus Awards offers over 200 qualifications, spanning across 11 sectors.

The awarding organization, Focus Awards provides help to their approved centres in the two key areas:

Develop qualiﬁcations in a wide range of subject matter areas and commercial sectors. These qualiﬁcations appear on the Regulated Qualiﬁcations Framework (RQF) and are nationally recognised.
Quality assure a centre’s own non-regulated qualiﬁcations. This can be useful to endorse such oﬀerings as short courses and CPD. Their Focus on Quality Provision (FQP) Scheme allows centres the freedom to develop them.

As a Focus Awards Approved Centre, ACT can fully meet the speciﬁc needs and requirements of its learners, by offering both nationally recognised qualifications and endorsed CPD or specialist short courses.

Ofqual regulated Focus Awards claims to be innovative, progressive, and customer- focused.

The awarding organization commits to provide its collective expertise and business acumen to help centres like ACT to provide the skills and training required or its learners. They are able to provide ACT with original, high quality resources and materials. The materials have been written to a very high standard and closely reflect those produced commercially for similar subject areas in the regulated sector.

Why Focus Awards

There are 6 key points why ACT collaborated with Focus Awards for its training purposes: -

The team of professionals associated with Focus Awards has come from the same sectors - education and training with the same jobs and roles of the learners. They are experts in their profession and are well aware of the requirements of today’s learners.
Candidates will get innovative, up-to-the minute solutions to their business’ challenges. It is a constant improvement, embracing new technologies and systems, driving relentlessly forward to provide the learners with the ‘best-in-class’ qualifications available today.
Candidates can complete their qualifications without the need for exams. The qualifications have been designed to take away the associated learner stress and anxiety from exams. This pioneering approach also removes costly invigilation requirements.
Focus Awards provides affordable payment plans for a fixed investment each month. Their main objective has always been to be different from (and better than) other Awarding Organisations and are committed to remaining so.
Since today’s learners want to purse specific qualifications as per their requirements, hence to fulfill that, Focus Awards offers ample variety and choice - a full range of complementary qualifications to suit the learners’ needs.
With approachable and supportive staffs around, Focus Awards claims to provide the best customer service and centre support. This kind of service is much desirable for institutes such as ACT.

Focus Awards claim to deliver the very best service, advice, and guidance so that organizations can do what is best for their growth and development – help their employees and staff succeed and achieve.

Asian College of Teachers has collaborated with Focus Awards with the aim to:

Continue provide fulfilment to its learners
Enable its business to grow and flourish
Enhance its reputation in the marketplace
Create the ongoing success and happiness among its target candidates

Successful completion of the qualification is a proof that the person achieving it has been assessed to have the knowledge, ability, and capability to undertake the employment, study, or progression the qualification is designed to fulfil.

Bespoke

Focus Awards also endorses non-regulated qualifications that meet the needs and requirements of learners.

After the approved centre’s application, the awarding body reviews its management systems and internal quality assurance arrangements to ensure that the centre has robust systems in place to develop its own qualifications and materials, together with appropriately qualified staff to assess and quality assure your provision.

By endorsing non-regulated qualifications for the Approved Centres, Focus Awards help learners choose products and learning providers that have been through a rigorous quality control process. The certification learners receive on successful completion helps them gain a sense of achievement and reassurance that their hard work is worthwhile and valued.

On successful completion of an FQP endorsed non-regulated qualification, learners are awarded a Certificate of Achievement that evidences and demonstrates they have achieved a qualification that requires dedication, hard work, and subject matter knowledge.

Testimonial

What they say

This course has expanded my knowledge to provide a better support to the SEN students whom I'm working with. I feel more confident in handling the challenges that I face.

E-HUA SE THOE

Post Graduate Diploma in Special Education (ADHD, Autism and Learning Disabilities)

I enjoyed the course throughout. It was carefully planned out and I could manage the modules easily. I loved the MCQs because I get to know the results instantly! I was excited to know how I did in the assignments and always impatient when I did not hear from my coordinator. All in all, I am glad I took this course.I would recommend to those who want to upgrade themselves.

GARY SIM POH CHEN

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Excellence Early Childhood courses offer and the content is full filled as for Preschool Teachers.

LAM MEI LING

Diploma in Early Childhood Care and Education

Throughout the course it was all good. Lecture materials that were on LMS were very supportive. And This diploma helped me a lot in achieving the expectations of mine when I had at the start of the course.

IMESHA MUTHUKUDA

Diploma in Educational Administration & Management

I found my teacher training to be a fun, educational and compelling journey. The knowledge presented is immediately useful for a current or aspiring teacher. I am a parent as well, who is currently homeschooling my children, and have happily begun implementing many of the practices shared in the course.

JEROME WILLIAMS

Certificate in Pre & Primary Teaching

"To teach is to educate our future generation" To teach is not only to educate children in an academic area,rather it involves the whole personality of the child. We are moulding a child's future. To teach is not just a job, it is a passion. Children are resilient to the environment. As a teacher, it is our responsibility to educate children in choosing right and wrong. Nowadays, education has blended into our daily lives. There are many things around that influence their way of thinking and understanding. As for me, I will do my best ability to spread my knowledge in teaching the children and teachers under my guidance.

CHARLENE JOROMAT DE LA TORRE

Diploma in Early Childhood Care and Education

DISCLAIMER

Asian College of Teachers (ACT) undertakes a continuous review of its teacher training courses to ensure imparting high quality education. However, there might be circumstances outside of ACT’s control which might affect its stakeholders like if you are planning to teach in a different country, applying for a teaching license, pursuing higher studies or trying to get the certificate approved by the Ministry of Education (MoE) of a particular country then you can do so with the certificate issued by Asian College of Teachers (ACT). However, each country’s Ministry of Education (MoE) or educational bodies set certain standards that are indispensable for the pursuit of higher studies or teaching in schools in that country. So it can be a possibility that you may be able to use the certificate for higher studies or teaching purposes in one country and not in another. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you investigate thoroughly and check with the relevant authorities regarding the acceptance of the certificate issued by us before you enrol on a particular course. ACT strives to offer high-quality education and its certificates can be valuable for various purposes internationally, but still it is crucial for individuals to verify the specific recognition of the certificate in the country they intend to use it, especially for formal education or professional licensing purposes. This approach ensures that the stakeholders make informed decisions regarding their educational and career paths.