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Learning Resource Network · RQF Level 5

LRN Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 5
  • Total credits120
  • Guided learning600 hours
  • Units in this qualification14

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

It allows learners to develop the skills and knowledge required for teaching and training roles. The qualification covers theories, principles, and development in education, including action research and equality and diversity.

These are the units Learning Resource Network 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.

Action ResearchReal unit · Learning Resource Network
You'll gain knowledge and skills to understand, initiate, conduct, and present action research within their professional context. The unit includes defining research questions, planning and carrying out research, analysing data, and evaluating practice to support professional development.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the purpose and nature of action research
  • Initiate action research
  • Understand ways of carrying out action research
  • Carry out action research
  • Present the outcomes of action research
  • Evaluate own practice in relation to action research
Developing Teaching, Leaning and Assessment in Education and TrainingReal unit · Learning Resource Network
It teaches you to critically investigate and analyse their own teaching, learning, and assessment practice within their specialism. You'll apply relevant theories and models to plan and deliver inclusive, safe, and effective teaching and learning.

What you'll be able to do

  • Investigate practice in own area of specialism.
  • Apply theories, principles and models of learning, communication and assessment to planning inclusive teaching.
  • Apply theories of behaviour management to creating and maintaining a safe, inclusive teaching and learning environment.
  • Apply theories, principles and models of learning and communication to delivering inclusive teaching and learning.
  • Apply theories, models and principles of assessment to assessing learning in education and training.
  • Implement expectations of the minimum core in planning, delivering and assessing inclusive teaching and learning.
  • Apply theories and models of reflection and evaluation to the evaluation of own practice in planning, delivering and assessing inclusive teaching and learning.
Developing, Using and Organising Resources in a Specialist AreaReal unit · Learning Resource Network
You'll gain knowledge of the purpose and use of resources in their specialist area. The unit covers developing inclusive resources, organising access, and understanding legal responsibilities related to resource development and use.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the purpose and use of resources in own specialist area.
  • Develop and use inclusive resources in own specialist area.
  • Understand how to organise and enable access to resources.
  • Understand legal requirements and responsibilities relating to the development and use of resources.
  • Evaluate own practice in relation to the development and use of resources in own specialist area.
Equality and DiversityReal unit · Learning Resource Network
It teaches you to understand the key features of a culture that promotes equality and values diversity within lifelong learning. You'll explore legal and ethical requirements, identify discriminatory practices, and develop strategies to promote equality and diversity effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the key features of a culture which promotes equality and values diversity
  • Understand the importance of promoting equality and valuing diversity in lifelong learning
  • Promote equality and value diversity
  • Understand how to help others in the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity
  • Review own contribution to promoting equality and valuing diversity in lifelong learning
Evaluating Learning ProgrammesReal unit · Learning Resource Network
This unit covers the principles and practices of managing learning and development within group settings. You'll learn to create positive group learning environments, manage group behaviour, apply appropriate methodologies, and ensure compliance with legal requirements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles and practices of managing learning and development in groups.
  • Manage group learning and development environments.
  • Apply methodologies to manage learning and development in groups.
  • Manage learning and development in groups to comply with legal and organisational requirements.
Identify the Learning Needs of OrganisationsReal unit · Learning Resource Network
You'll develop knowledge and skills to conduct learning needs analysis within organisations. The unit covers principles and methods of analysis, factors influencing organisational learning needs, and the agreement of learning and development plans with relevant stakeholders.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles and practices of learning needs analysis for organisations
  • Conduct learning needs analysis for the organisation
  • Agree organisational learning and development plans with relevant people
Inclusive PracticeReal unit · Learning Resource Network
You'll gain an understanding of factors influencing learning and the impact of policy and regulatory frameworks on inclusive practice. The unit covers roles and responsibilities, creating and maintaining inclusive learning environments, and evaluating personal inclusive teaching approaches.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand factors which influence learning.
  • Understand the impact of policy and regulatory frameworks on inclusive practice.
  • Understand roles and responsibilities relating to inclusive practice.
  • Understand how to create and maintain an inclusive learning environment.
  • Evaluate own inclusive practice.
Internally Assure the Quality of AssessmentReal unit · Learning Resource Network
This unit equips learners with skills to plan, evaluate, maintain, and improve the internal quality assurance of assessment. You'll manage relevant information, ensure legal and good practice compliance, and support continuous improvement of assessment processes within organisations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Plan the internal quality assurance of assessment.
  • Internally evaluate the quality of assessment.
  • Internally maintain and improve the quality of assessment.
  • Manage information relevant to the internal quality assurance of assessment.
  • Maintain legal and good practice requirements when internally monitoring and maintaining the quality of assessment.
Manage Learning and Development in GroupsReal unit · Learning Resource Network
You'll understand and apply principles and practices for managing learning and development in group settings. The unit covers creating supportive group environments, managing group behaviour, applying appropriate methodologies, and ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and organisational policies.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles and practices of managing learning and development in groups.
  • Manage group learning and development environments.
  • Apply methodologies to manage learning and development in groups.
  • Manage learning and development in groups to comply with legal and organisational requirements.
Teaching in a Specialist areaReal unit · Learning Resource Network
This unit provides learners with an understanding of teaching in a specialist area, including its aims, philosophy, and the structure of key qualifications and learning programmes. You'll explore inclusive teaching principles, curriculum issues, and resource utilisation to support effective learning.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the aims and philosophy of education and training in a specialist area.
  • Understand the aims and structure of key qualifications and learning programmes available to learners in a specialist area.
  • Understand principles of inclusive teaching and learning and key curriculum issues in a specialist area.
  • Understand how to use resources for inclusive teaching and learning in a specialist area.
  • Work with others within a specialised area to develop own practice.
  • Evaluate, improve and update own knowledge and skills in a specialist area.
Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Education and TrainingReal unit · Learning Resource Network
You'll develop knowledge of roles, responsibilities, and relationships in education and training. The unit covers the use of initial and diagnostic assessments, planning inclusive teaching, and creating safe, inclusive learning environments.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand roles, responsibilities and relationships in education and training.
  • Use initial and diagnostic assessment to agree individual learning goals with learners.
  • Plan inclusive teaching and learning.
  • Create and maintain a safe, inclusive teaching and learning environment.
  • Deliver inclusive teaching and learning.
  • Assess learning and education.
  • Implement the minimum core in planning, delivery and assessing inclusive teaching and learning.
  • Evaluate own practice in planning, delivering and assessing inclusive teaching and learning.
Theories, Principles and Development in Education and TrainingReal unit · Learning Resource Network
This unit covers the theories, principles, and models underpinning education and training, including learning, communication, and assessment. You'll explore how these theories apply in diverse contexts and influence the design and delivery of effective education and training programmes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the application of theories, principles and models of learning in education and training
  • Understand the application of theories, principles and models of communication in education and training
  • Understand the application of theories, principles and models of assessment in education and training
  • Understand the application of theories and models of curriculum development within own area of specialism
  • Understand the application of theories and models of reflection and evaluation to reviewing own practice
Understanding and Managing Behaviour in a Learning EnvironmentReal unit · Learning Resource Network
You'll explore factors influencing behaviour in learning environments and relevant organisational policies. They will develop skills to promote positive behaviours, manage disruptive behaviours effectively, and evaluate their own practice in behaviour management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand potential factors that can lead to behaviours that disrupt a learning environment.
  • Understand organisational policies relating to the management of behaviours in a learning environment.
  • Promote behaviours that contribute to a purposeful learning environment.
  • Manage behaviours that disrupt a purposeful learning environment.
  • Evaluate own practice in managing behaviours within a learning environment.
Wider Professional Practice and Development in Education and TrainingReal unit · Learning Resource Network
This unit provides learners with an understanding of professionalism, ethical conduct, and professional values in education and training. You'll examine the policy context, accountability to stakeholders, and organisational influences on professional practice.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand professionalism and the influence of professional values in education and training.
  • Understand the policy context of education and training.
  • Understand the impact of accountability to stakeholders and external bodies on education and training.
  • Understand the organisational context of education and training.
  • Contribute to the quality improvement and quality assurance arrangements of an organisation.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

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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 5 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.

Action ResearchDeveloping Teaching, Leaning and Assessment in Education and TrainingDeveloping, Using and Organising Resources in a Specialist AreaEquality and DiversityEvaluating Learning ProgrammesIdentify the Learning Needs of OrganisationsInclusive PracticeInternally Assure the Quality of Assessment

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

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Where 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.

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LRN Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training
  • Create an inclusive learning environment
  • Develop and apply understanding of theory and effective practice in adult learning
  • Identify collective learning and development needs
  • Manage learning and development in groups
  • Manage or coordinate inclusive family learning environments
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

Where this can lead

Organisational Learning Specialist

Your journey here is what you make it. We're committed to providing the opportunities and support for you to grow, whether that's becoming a deep subject matter expert or leading a team. We want to see you succeed.

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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.

Create an inclusive learning environmentDevelop and apply understanding of theory and effective practice in adult learningIdentify collective learning and development needsManage learning and development in groupsManage or coordinate inclusive family learning environments

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.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Action ResearchLevel 5

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Organisational Learning SpecialistAssociate Technical TrainerTechnical Trainer

Learners will gain knowledge and skills to understand, initiate, conduct, and present action research within their professional context. The unit includes defining research questions, planning and carrying out research, analysing data, and evaluating practice to support professional development.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
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Built for LRN Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training

14 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Learning Resource Network.

  1. Action Research
  2. Developing Teaching, Leaning and Assessment in Education and Training
  3. Developing, Using and Organising Resources in a Specialist Area
  4. Equality and Diversity
  5. Evaluating Learning Programmes
  6. Identify the Learning Needs of Organisations

and 8 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

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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