MP Awards · RQF Level 6
MPQC Level 6 Diploma in Mine Ground Control Engineering (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits161
- Guided learning168 hours
- Units in this qualification10
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.
Conform to Efficient Working PracticesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Be able conform to efficient working practices.
- Understand how to conform to efficient working practices.
Design Mine Ground Control and Support MethodsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Design mine ground control reinforcement and support systems.
- Understand legislation in relation to ground control in mines
- Understand health, safety and environmental aspects in relation to mine ground control.
- Understand the condition of the mine.
- Understand mining operations.
- Understand effective working relations in the mine.
- Understand rock mechanics
- Understand ground control engineering.
Determine the Requirements for Engineering ActivitiesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Determine the Requirements for Engineering Activities
- Determine the Requirements for Engineering Activities
Manage Mining Physical ResourcesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Manage physical resources at the mine
- Understand how to manage physical resources
Managing a Programme of Complementary ProjectsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Manage a programme of complementary projects.
- Understand how to manage a programme of complementary projects.
Managing own resources and professional developmentReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key issues relating to managing own resources and professional development
- Understand key contextual information relating to managing own resources and professional development
- Understand own work role and future aspirations
- Plan own professional development
- Evaluate own professional development and performance
Operate Safely in the Mining EnvironmentReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Operate safely in the mining environment.
- Understand how to operate safely in the mining environment.
Provide leadership in the mineReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Provide leadership in the mine
- Understand the leadership of people in mining
Provide training for scientific or technical activities in the workplaceReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Provide training for scientific or technical activities in the workplace
- Provide training for scientific or technical activities in the workplace (continued)
- Provide training for scientific or technical activities in the workplace
- Provide training for scientific or technical activities in the workplace (continued)
Testing and Calibrating Instrumentation and Control Equipment and CircuitsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Test and calibrate instrumentation and control equipment and circuits
- Test and calibrate instrumentation and control equipment and circuits (continued)
- Test and calibrate instrumentation and control equipment and circuits
- Test and calibrate instrumentation and control equipment and circuits (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 6 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.
- Co-ordinate Ground Control Activities
- Conform to Efficient Work Practices
- Design and maintain mine ground control and support methods
- Design the layout of mine extraction areas
- Establish mine ground control and support methods
- Manage Physical Resources
- Manage a programme of complementary projects
- Manage mine physical resources
Where this can lead
Staff Technical Program Manager
Your journey as a Staff TPM is about becoming an indispensable orchestrator of technical progress. The path ahead is rich with opportunities to shape our technology, mentor future leaders, and solve some of the most challenging problems in our industry. It won't always be easy, but it will certainly be rewarding.
See the whole journey →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 work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for MPQC Level 6 Diploma in Mine Ground Control Engineering (QCF)
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by MP Awards.
- Conform to Efficient Working Practices
- Design Mine Ground Control and Support Methods
- Determine the Requirements for Engineering Activities
- Manage Mining Physical Resources
- Managing a Programme of Complementary Projects
- Managing own resources and professional development
and 4 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.