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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer City and Guilds of London Institute has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and City and Guilds of London Institute awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from City and Guilds of London Institute.
This qualification covers the advanced practical skills and knowledge required to work in furniture design and production roles within the furniture industry.
These are the units City and Guilds of London Institute registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with City and Guilds of London Institute. It does the teaching and the mapping. City and Guilds of London Institute sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Assemble furniture components by hand Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate hand assembly techniques for furniture components.
Attaching doors, drawers and fittings in furniture making Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the methods for attaching fittings in furniture.
Hand finishing methods in furniture making Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate hand finishing methods for furniture.
Health and safety within furniture and furnishing making environments Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the risks associated with furniture making.
Produce drawings using CAD Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Use CAD software to produce furniture design drawings.
Production planning in furniture and furnishing making Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop effective production plans for furniture projects.
Prototype design in furniture making Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Create prototypes based on design specifications.
Research and product design in furniture making Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct effective research to support furniture design.
Spray finishing in furniture making Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Utilise spray finishing techniques in furniture production.
Supervision in a furniture and furnishing making environment Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate effective supervision techniques in a furniture making environment.
Sustainability in the timber trade Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand sustainable practices in timber sourcing and usage.
Technical drawings and workshop geometry Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret technical drawings and apply geometric principles.
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Assemble components
- Standard
Research Information to Inform Designs
The credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Assemble furniture components by handAttaching doors, drawers and fittings in furniture makingHand finishing methods in furniture makingHealth and safety within furniture and furnishing making environmentsProduce drawings using CADProduction planning in furniture and furnishing makingPrototype design in furniture makingResearch and product design in furniture making
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Production planning in furniture and furnishing making” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Research and product design in furniture making” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Supervision in a furniture and furnishing making environment” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Assemble furniture components by hand, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
This unit focuses on manual assembly techniques used in furniture production.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Furniture Design and Making
12 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.
- Assemble furniture components by hand
- Attaching doors, drawers and fittings in furniture making
- Hand finishing methods in furniture making
- Health and safety within furniture and furnishing making environments
- Produce drawings using CAD
- Production planning in furniture and furnishing making
and 6 more in the full unit list below.
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