The purpose of LASER’s quality assurance is to work with approved centres to ensure that certificates which are awarded to learners are a valid and secure reflection of their learning and assessment.

Once a centre has been approved, LASER undertakes ongoing monitoring and support through an assigned Quality and Curriculum Reviewer. This focuses on the following areas:

Ensuring that centres understand and are complying with the Centre Recognition criteria
Ensuring that centres’ training, assessment and internal quality systems are robust
Ensuring that centres have appropriately qualified and experienced staff and resources to deliver training, assessment and internal quality assurance.

Quality and Curriculum Reviewers undertake a schedule of centre quality review visits and meetings for all centres, and are available in between visits to support centres. Centres receive a copy of all reports on completion of any EQA activity, and reports may identify actions required to maintain LASER approval.

Please note that Access to HE provision is covered by a separate quality assurance system.