City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 3
City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Silversmithing (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits94
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification20
Awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Apply concepts of metallurgy to the production of precious metal objectsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the theoretical concepts of metallurgy
- Understand how to apply metallurgy concepts to the production of precious metal objects
Form silverware componentsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to form complex silverware components
- Form complex silverware components
Implement electro-deposition on precious metal componentsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of electro-deposition in jewellery and silverware manufacture
- Understand how to use electro-deposition techniques
- Understand the health and safety requirements when implementing electro-deposition techniques
- Use electro-deposition techniques in jewellery or silverware manufacture
Implement electroforming to produce precious metal componentsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of electroforming in jewellery and silverware manufacture
- Understand how to use electroforming techniques
- Understand the health and safety requirements when implementing electroforming techniques
- Use electroforming techniques in jewellery or silverware manufacture
Join jewellery components by solderingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics of materials used in soldering
- Understand how to join complex jewellery items by soldering
- Join complex jewellery items by soldering
Join silverware components by solderingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics of materials used in soldering
- Understand how to join complex silverware components by soldering
- Join complex silverware components by soldering
Maintain and prepare the workshop for work with precious metalReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of safe working practice within a workshop environment
- Take part in the maintenance and preparation of workshop areas
Maintain knowledge of the jewellery industry, allied trades and related technologiesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to maintain up to date knowledge of industry working practices
- Understand how to develop an awareness of employment opportunities within the jewellery sector
- Implement activity to develop an up to date knowledge of industry working practices
Mark out and measure materials for the manufacture of precious metal objectsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare materials for the manufacture of precious metal objects
- Prepare materials ready for the manufacture of precious metal objects
Polish and finish silverware components to a commercial standardReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare polishing equipment for use
- Understand how to use polishing techniques
- Polish complex silverware components to a commercial finish
Produce CAD-CAM designs and prototypes for precious metal objectsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to use CAD software to produce designs and prototypes
- Understand how to use CAM technology to produce prototypes
- Produce designs using CAD software
- Produce prototypes using CAM
Produce chased items for precious metal objectsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how drawings and specifications are used to produce chased work
- Understand how to use tools and materials correctly to produce chased work
- Produce complex chased items
Produce jewellery components using wax castingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to produce complex jewellery components using wax casting
- Understand how to maintain the quality of jewellery formed through wax casting
- Understand how to maintain casting equipment
- Produce complex jewellery components using wax casting
Produce precious metal objects from detailed drawings and specificationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how drawings can be used to produce jewellery, silverware or engraved items
- Use drawings to produce jewellery, silverware or engraved items
Produce rubber moulds for lost wax castingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to produce complex rubber moulds for lost wax casting
- Produce complex rubber moulds for lost wax casting
Produce spun silverware componentsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to produce complex spun silverware components
- Produce complex spun silverware components
Produce tools and jigs for use in the manufacture of precious metal objectsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to produce tools and jigs
- Produce tools and jigs
Saw and pierce silverware componentsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to saw and pierce complex silverware components
- Saw and pierce complex silverware components
Set gemstones by hand in the manufacture of jewellery itemsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of working with gemstones
- Understand how to set gemstones by hand
- Set gemstones by hand
Use mechanical methods to join precious metal componentsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to join complex jewellery or silverware components using mechanical methods
- Join complex jewellery or silverware components using mechanical methods
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. 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’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Cast jewellery or silverware components
- Complete wax production for jewellery or silverware
- Form silverware components
- Form silverware components using advanced techniques
- Join jewellery or silverware components by soldering
- Keep up to date with the jewellery industry, allied trades and related technologies and trends
- Perform Electro-deposition on Jewellery or Silverware Components
- Produce Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing Prototypes for Jewellery or Silverware
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Silversmithing (QCF)
20 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.
- Apply concepts of metallurgy to the production of precious metal objects
- Form silverware components
- Implement electro-deposition on precious metal components
- Implement electroforming to produce precious metal components
- Join jewellery components by soldering
- Join silverware components by soldering
and 14 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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