MP Awards · RQF Level 2
MPQC Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Laboratory and Associated Technical Activities (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits31
- Guided learning214 hours
- Units in this qualification16
Awarded by MP Awards · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units MP Awards 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.
Carry out routine maintenance, cleaning and checking of scientific or technical equipmentReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry out routine maintenance, cleaning and checking of scientific or technical equipment
- 1b. Carry out routine maintenance, cleaning and checking of scientific or technical equipment (continued)
- 2a. Know how to carry out routine maintenance, cleaning and checking of scientific or technical equipment
- 2b. Know how to carry out routine maintenance, cleaning and checking of scientific or technical equipment (continued)
Carry out sampling operations for scientific or technical testsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry out sampling operations for scientific or technical tests
- 1b. Carry out sampling operations for scientific or technical tests (continued)
- 2a. Know how to carry out sampling operations for scientific or technical tests
- 2b. Know how to carry out sampling operations for scientific or technical tests (continued)
Carry out simple scientific or technical tests using automated equipmentReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry out simple scientific or technical tests using automated equipment
- 1b. Carry out simple scientific or technical tests using automated equipment (continued)
- 2a. Know how to carry out simple scientific or technical tests using automated equipment
- 2b. Know how to carry out simple scientific or technical tests using automated equipment (continued)
Carry out simple scientific or technical tests using manual equipmentReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry out simple scientific or technical tests using manual equipment
- 1b. Carry out simple scientific or technical tests using manual equipment (continued)
- 2a. Know how to carry out simple scientific or technical tests using manual equipment
- 2b. Know how to carry out simple scientific or technical tests using manual equipment (continued)
Clean and tidy the workplace after scientific or technical learning activitiesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Clean and tidy the workplace after scientific or technical learning activities
- 1b. Clean and tidy the workplace after scientific or technical learning activities (continued)
- 2a. Know how to clean and tidy the workplace after scientific or technical learning activities
- 2b. Know how to clean and tidy the workplace after scientific or technical learning activities (continued)
Demonstrate scientific or technical methods, techniques and skills to others in the workplaceReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Demonstrate scientific or technical methods, techniques and skills to others in the workplace
- 1b. Demonstrate scientific or technical methods, techniques and skills to others in the workplace (continued)
- 2a. Know how to demonstrate scientific or technical methods, techniques and skills to others in the workplace
- 2b. Know how to demonstrate scientific or technical methods, techniques and skills to others in the workplace (continued)
Follow health and safety procedures for scientific or technical activitiesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Follow health and safety procedures for scientific or technical activities
- 1b. Follow health and safety procedures for scientific or technical activities (continued)
- 2a. Know how to follow health and safety procedures for scientific or technical activities
- 2b. Know how to follow health and safety procedures for scientific or technical activities (continued)
Following aseptic procedures in the laboratory environmentReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Follow aseptic procedures in the labouratory environment
- 1b. Follow aseptic procedures in the labouratory environment (continued)
- 2a. Know how to follow aseptic procedures in the labouratory environment
- 2b. Know how to follow aseptic procedures in the labouratory environment (continued)
Maintain effective and efficient working relationships for scientific or technical activitiesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- A. Maintain effective and efficient working relationships for scientific or technical activities\n1b. Maintain effective and efficient working relationships for scientific or technical activities (continued)\n2a. Know how to maintain effective and efficient working relationships for scientific or technical activities\n2b. Know how to maintain effective and efficient working relationships for scientific or technical activities (continued)
Maintain stocks of resources, equipment and consumables for scientific or technical useReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Maintain stocks of resources, equipment and consumables for scientific or technical use
- 1b. Maintain stocks of resources, equipment and consumables for scientific or technical use (continued)
- 2a. Know how to maintain stocks of resources, equipment and consumables for scientific or technical use
- 2b. Know how to maintain stocks of resources, equipment and consumables for scientific or technical use (continued)
Prepare compounds and solutions for scientific or technical useReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- A. Prepare compounds and solutions for scientific or technical use\n1b. Prepare compounds and solutions for scientific or technical use (continued)\n2a. Know how to prepare compounds and solutions for scientific or technical use\n2b. Know how to prepare compounds and solutions for scientific or technical use (continued)
Prepare new scientific or technical methods, resources and equipment for learning activitiesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- A. Prepare new scientific or technical methods, resources and equipment for learning activities\n1b. Prepare new scientific or technical methods, resources and equipment for learning activities (continued)\n2a. Know how to prepare new scientific or technical methods, resources and equipment for learning activities\n2b. Know how to prepare new scientific or technical methods, resources and equipment for learning activities (continued)
Prepare resources and equipment for scientific or technical learning activitiesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Prepare resources and equipment for scientific or technical learning activities
- 1b. Prepare resources and equipment for scientific or technical learning activities (continued)
- 2a. Know how to prepare resources and equipment for scientific or technical learning activities
- 2b. Know how to prepare resources and equipment for scientific or technical learning activities (continued)
Prepare scientific or technical samples for testing activitiesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Prepare scientific or technical samples for testing activities
- 1b. Prepare scientific or technical samples for testing activities (continued)
- 2a. Know how to prepare scientific or technical samples for testing activities
- 2b. Know how to prepare scientific or technical samples for testing activities (continued)
Provide scientific or technical support for learning activitiesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Provide scientific or technical support for learning activities
- 1b. Provide scientific or technical support for learning activities (continued)
- 2a. Know how to provide scientific or technical support for learning activities
- 2b. Know how to provide scientific or technical support for learning activities (continued)
Use information recordings systems for scientific or technical activitiesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Use information recordings systems for scientific or technical activities
- 1b. Use information recordings systems for scientific or technical activities (continued)
- 2a. Know how to use information recordings systems for scientific or technical activities
- 2b. Know how to use information recordings systems for scientific or technical activities (continued)
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.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 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
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
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.
- 02_Maintain effective and efficient biomanufacturing working relationships
- 02_Maintaining effective and efficient working relationships in the laboratory
- Assisting with the maintenance of stocks of reagents and consumables for laboratory use
- Assisting with the routine maintenance, cleaning, disinfecting and calibration of laboratory equipment
- Carry out complex scientific or technical sampling operations
- Carry out routine maintenance, cleaning and checking of scientific or technical equipment
- Carry out sampling operations in life sciences and related industries
- Clean and tidy the workplace after scientific or technical learning activities
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 MPQC Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Laboratory and Associated Technical Activities (QCF)
16 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by MP Awards.
- Carry out routine maintenance, cleaning and checking of scientific or technical equipment
- Carry out sampling operations for scientific or technical tests
- Carry out simple scientific or technical tests using automated equipment
- Carry out simple scientific or technical tests using manual equipment
- Clean and tidy the workplace after scientific or technical learning activities
- Demonstrate scientific or technical methods, techniques and skills to others in the workplace
and 10 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.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.