About us

City College Norwich was the first FE college in the country to gain Awarding Organisation Status. As well as devising qualifications in consultation with employers, sector skills councils and professional bodies we can also accredit high quality training provided by employers to give them nationally recognised qualifications. We have worked with financial services companies such as Aviva, Marsh, Axa, Moneyfacts, Virgin Money and the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society on the development of an Introduction to Financial Services course for new recruits to the sector and have worked closely with the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland to accredit brand new qualifications for banking professionals.
 
This means that when we make the claim that we are responsive to the needs of employers and can produce tailor-made solutions – we can. Organisations wishing to develop or accredit their own qualifications will receive support from us as we work together. Employees will get nationally recognised qualifications; employers will get a more motivated, better trained, more productive workforce and working together we can address regional and national skills gaps. The College was awarded this status by the QCA (Qualifications and Curriculum Authority) in April 2008. Since then the government has split the QCA into the QCDA (Qualifications and Curriculum Development Authority), which controls the national Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) within which all our qualifications sit, and Ofqual, which is the regulatory authority. The QCF provides a flexible route to the creation of customised awards which have nationally recognised status.