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How it works · Qualifications & Standards

You already do the work. Now get the credit for it.

Zavmo turns the things you do every day into evidence, mapped to the exact standards employers and awarding bodies use, that builds towards a real qualification. No essays about situations you’ll never face.

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Real, regulated standards Your work is the evidence A record you own

You already do the work. Zavmo maps it to the standards an awarding body reads.

You’ve been building evidence for years. Zavmo just starts counting it.

Most qualifications make you prove yourself all over again, on their terms, in their time. Zavmo works the other way: it takes the skill already in your day job, maps it to formal standards. You end up with something on paper you can take to an awarding body.

Evidence as it stacks up: each module with the lessons completed, the level of thinking it reaches, and the credits it carries.

What you can actually study

1,085 regulated qualifications from 84 awarding bodies on the Ofqual register. Every course page shows its level, its credits and its guided learning hours. It also lists the units it is made of.

Who awards them

And 24 more with a page of their own, including Pearson and City & Guilds. See every awarding body

What size they come in

Award 163
The smallest. One skill, done properly. Weeks, not years.
Certificate 326
A group of skills that go together. The usual first step.
Diploma 484
The full picture of a job. The biggest of the three.
NVQ 86
Judged on the work itself, at work. No exam hall.

Where you would start

Levels are how the UK sizes a qualification. What they mean for a career is our reading of them, not the regulator’s.

The work you already do is the evidence

The report you write, the ticket you close, the grievance you handle. That is what gets assessed, against the unit it maps to. No essays about situations you will never face.

Your record is yours, and it moves

Every lesson is written to a standards-compliant learning record in your name. Which units, which criteria, what level of thinking. You can take it to an employer or an awarding body without asking us for it.

Nothing gets renamed

Unit codes and awarding-body names stay exactly as the register spells them. So what you earn means the same everywhere.

Where this stands. Zavmo isn’t an awarding body. It does the teaching and the mapping, and it builds the evidence. Work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold. We are working with the awarding bodies to become a recognised training provider, and that is applied for and not yet granted. We will say so here when it changes.

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