NOCN · RQF Entry Level
NOCN Entry Level Award in Skills for Further Learning and Employment
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Entry Level
- Total credits18
- Guided learning141 hours
- Units in this qualification22
Awarded by NOCN · on the Ofqual register
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See how this course maps onto your role
Ten quick questions, one per Future Fluency, asked against this qualification rather than a generic one.
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
NOCN Entry Level Certificate in Skills for Employment, Training and Personal Development (Entry 3). This qualification consists of a range of units designed to aid learners in skills for employability, personal development, and general life skills.
These are the units NOCN 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.
Alcohol and Drug Misuse AwarenessReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an understanding of alcohol and drug misuse.
Aspects of CitizenshipReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of citizenship.
Awareness of Social and Physical Aspects of Adult RelationshipsReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate awareness of social and physical factors affecting adult relationships.
BudgetingReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of budgeting.
Career PreparationReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for career opportunities.
Caring for your ChildReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate basic child care skills.
Computer BasicsReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand fundamental computer operations.
Emotional IntelligenceReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Develop awareness of emotional intelligence.
Employment Contracts and PayslipsReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand employment contracts and payslips.
Exploring HealthReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate understanding of health principles.
Food and Nutrition for Children and Young PeopleReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand essential nutritional needs of young people.
Food, Drink and CookingReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate basic cooking skills.
Healthy LivingReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand principles of healthy living.
Home and Personal SafetyReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate knowledge of safety practices.
Human Growth and DevelopmentReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand stages of human development.
IT User FundamentalsReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand basic IT user principles.
Introduction to Issues of Substance MisuseReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand issues related to substance misuse.
Know How to Use ICT to Support Your Child’s LearningReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Utilise ICT to bolster child learning activities.
Maintaining Sexual HealthReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand factors affecting sexual health.
Parenting SkillsReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate parenting skills and techniques.
Personal Budgeting and Managing MoneyReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate budgeting and money management skills.
Personal HygieneReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the significance of personal hygiene.
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
Entry Level 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.
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
This unit provides learners with an understanding of the issues surrounding alcohol and drug misuse, including the effects on individuals and society.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for NOCN Entry Level Award in Skills for Further Learning and Employment
22 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NOCN.
- Alcohol and Drug Misuse Awareness
- Aspects of Citizenship
- Awareness of Social and Physical Aspects of Adult Relationships
- Budgeting
- Career Preparation
- Caring for your Child
and 16 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.