Independent Verifiers & Assessors

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ABOUT IVA

Now in our thirteenth year we continue to receive excellent levels of support and growth in membership with members’ assessment and verification interests already covering several hundred different qualifications and have developed into an organisation with an international membership with members in eight countries. IVA is now incorporated and hopes to obtain charitable status.

IVA provides a point of information and support for members irrespective of the qualification they assess or verify. It promotes and disseminates good practice through regional and international seminars and workshops which are free to members and publishes and circulates the quarterly IVA Newsletter. Additionally, a weekly e-newsletter, Soundbite is provided for members by FE News.

Individual membership is restricted to assessors and verifiers who have been awarded with Training & Development D Units or Learning & Development A & V Units by any awarding body accredited to offer them by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) or Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA). Members of IVA receive a unique reference number on registration and may use the post-nominal letters MIVA whilst in membership.
IVA began as a response to widespread expressions of interest from S/NVQ centres’ staff and awarding bodies’ external verifiers. They wanted the establishment of a practitioner-led independent body, funded by members’ subscriptions, which would keep Assessors and Verifiers in touch with developing practice and one another.
The Departments for Children Schools & Families and Business Innovation & Skills support IVA as an organisation that gives guidance and support to assessors & verifiers and promotes their professional development.

IVA, 10 Mill Court, Park Drive, Trentham, Staffordshire, ST4 8FE

Telephone: 01782 644418 Facsimile: 01782 646893 E-mail: mail@ivalimited.co.uk

Incorporated in England No. 3699131