Ascentis · RQF Level 2
Ascentis Level 2 Diploma in Skills for Further Education and Employment
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits45
- Guided learning450 hours
- Units in this qualification56
Awarded by Ascentis · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Ascentis 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.
Aspects of EnergyReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a range of optical phenomena
- Understand the relationship between temperature and heat
- Understand simple electrical circuits
- Know that the principle of conservation of energy controls conversion processes
Biology and Our EnvironmentReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the functioning of organisms
- Classify organisms
- Know about the relationship of organisms with their environment
- Understand the effects of human activity on the environment and how these effects can be measured
- Know the factors which can affect and control human health
Budgeting and Managing MoneyReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of budgeting in a business context
- Understand key financial concepts
- Know about income and expenditure
- Understand how businesses manage key financial information
Business StudiesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature and purpose(s) of business
- Understand different types of business
- Formulate objectives for different types of business organisations
- Understand the organisational structure of different types of businesses
- Understand the importance of communication that can be used in business
Chemistry and Our EarthReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know how uses of chemical substances depend upon their chemical and physical properties
- Know about chemical reactivity and bonding
- Investigate the factors that affect the rate of chemical reactions
- Know the factors that are affecting the Earth and its environment
Child and Young Person DevelopmentReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know the main stages of child and young person development
- Understand the kinds of influences that affect children and young people's development
- Understand the potential effects of transitions on children and young people's development
Consumer LawReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand consumer protection legislation
- Understand the function of regultory bodies
Creating Business Web PagesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know key considerations when creating a website
- Understand terminology relating to website development
- Create web pages or a website
- Evaluate the process and the outcome
Effective LearningReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own learning programme
- Set and use targets for own learning
- Use assessment to improve performance
- Use different learning styles and techniques
- Contribute to a learning group
- Use technology to support own learning
Energy and Our UniverseReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate energy transformations
- Know properties and applications of waves and radiation
- Know properties and applications of ionising radiation
- Know how electrical energy that is generated from different sources can be transferred to electric circuits in the home and industry
- Know the components of the solar system and the way the universe is changing
- Know the methods used to explore space
Environmental ScienceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know the importance and functions of the carbon cycle
- Know the importance and functions of the nitrogen cycle
- Know the processes that produce undesirable atmospheric changes
- Know the economic and social consequences of pollution caused by humans
- Understand the arguments for the continued expansion of recycling programmes
Financial ManagementReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to read a balance sheet
- Understand a basic end of year profit and loss statement
- Control cash in business
- Understand the basic measures of performance
Forensic ScienceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the uses of chromatography to analyse soluble dyes
- Obtain and classify fingerprints
- Identify the structure of different fibres
- Know about steganography
- Know how graphology can be used in forensic science
- Use techniques for the analysis of similar substances from more than one source
Health Promotion in Care SettingsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of health promotion
- Promote principles of a healthy lifestyle
- Know about potential conflicts related to health promotion
- Know about care workers keeping safe and healthy
Introduction to Counselling Skills TheoriesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know elements of counselling theories
- Know the significance of counselling theory
Introduction to EducationReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand definitions of education
- Understand what is studied in education
- Know careers available in education
- Know skills and qualities needed for careers in education
- Understand different approaches to education
- Understand principles of education
- Know how principles of education can be applied
Introduction to Health StudiesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is studied in health studies
- Understand different perspectives in health studies
- Understand the purpose of health studies
- Know research methods used in health studies
- Know how health research findings may be applied
- Know careers available in health
- Know skills and qualities needed for careers in health
Introduction to Law in the United KingdomReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure and jurisdiction of courts in the UK
- Understand the roles of personnel in the UK legal system
- Understand the sources and processes of legal advice in the UK
- Understand key legal processes in the UK
- Understand the alternatives to taking matters to court in the UK
- Know about career progression routes relevant to UK legal and related professions
Investigating SpaceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know the structure of our solar system
- Understand the characteristics of Earth that help it sustain life
- Create a planet simulation which will sustain life
- Understand how a telescope works
- Design and create a telescope
- Understand how humans survive in space
- Understand the role and features of a space probe
- Design a space probe
Law in Action: Criminal LawReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know about concepts in criminal law
- Know about fatal offences
- Know about non-fatal offences
- Know about property offences
- Know about general defences
Law in the WorkplaceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the differences between a self-employed person and an employed person
- Understand the importance of a contract of employment
- Understand how contracts of employment can be terminated
- Understand the requirements of an effective working environment
Life Processes and Living ThingsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of biological science
- Know about animal, plant and bacterial cells
- Understand inheritance
- Understand how organisms interact with the environment and each other
- Understand the structure and function of a key plant system
- Understand the structure and function of a key animal system
MarketingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of marketing.
- Understand the process of product development and the crucial role of market research within it.
- Understand the role and components of the marketing mix.
- Effectively manage marketing strategies.
Nutrition, Performance and Healthy EatingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the function of food
- Understand the relationship between food and health
- Understand the basic principles of weight control
- Understand why a balanced diet is required to maximise performance
Physiology and ExerciseReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure and function of the skeleton and muscle tissue
- Understand the structure and function of the respiratory system
- Understand the structure and function of the cardiovascular system
- Understand the long-term adaptations of the body to exercise
Preparing to Support LearningReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand learning support practice in lifelong learning contexts
- Understand the values and principles of inclusive learning support
- Understand how to support learning
- Evaluate and improve learning support practice
Principles of Managing Information and Producing DocumentsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of information technology in a business environment
- Understand how to manage electronic and paper-based information
- Understand the purpose of producing documents that are fit for purpose
- Know the procedures to be followed when producing documents
Principles of Providing Administrative ServicesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to make and receive telephone calls
- Understand how to handle email
- Understand how to use different types of office equipment
- Understand how to keep waste to a minimum in a business environment
- Make arrangements for meetings
- Understand procedures for organising travel and accommodation arrangements
- Understand diary management procedures
- Understand the purpse of delivering effective customer service and how to do so
- Understand the purpose of reception services and how to follow reception procedures
Principles of Safeguarding and Protection in Health and Social CareReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise signs of abuse
- Respond to suspected or alleged abuse
- Understand the national and local context of safeguarding and protection from abuse
- Understand ways to reduce the likelihood of abuse
- Recognise and report unsafe practices
Principles of Supporting Change in a Business EnvironmentReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why change happens in a business environment
- Understand the purpose of supporting change in a business environment
- Understand how to respond to change in a business environment
Principles of Working in the Public SectorReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know the features of the public sector
- Understand how the public sector is structured
- Understand the role of the public sector in providing services and how individual roles contribute to service provision
- Understand finances in the public sector
- Understand how public sector organisations work together and with other organisations
- Explain how performance is monitored and measured in the public sector and the purpose of doing so
Research SkillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different types of research methods and their uses
- Plan a piece of research
- Report on a piece of research
- Evaluate a piece of research
Research Skills for Academic StudyReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to plan research on a given topic
- Assess the reliability of a range of different types of information sources
- Utilise information to inform own writing
- Utilise information to inform own writing
Researching and Understanding Opportunities for Study in Higher EducationReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand study opportunities available in Higher Education
- Understand the advantages and disadvantages of choosing a particular Higher Education course
- Produce an action plan for the development of graduate career related abilities and skills
- Understand the importance of broader life experiences and transferbale skills in relation to progression to Higher Education
Safeguarding the welfare of children and young peopleReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people including e-safety
- Know what to do when children or young people are ill or injured, including emergency procedures
- Respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused, harmed or bullied
Schools as OrganisationsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know the different types of schools in the education sector
- Know how schools are organised in terms of roles and responsibilities
- Understand how schools uphold their aims and values
- Know about the laws and codes of practice that affect work in schools
- Know about the range and purpose of school policies and procedures
- Know about the wider context in which schools operate
Stress and Stress Management TechniquesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the term stress
- Recognise signs and symptoms of stress
- Know how stress affects health
- Know about potential causes of stress in everday life
- Design a personal plan to combat stress
The Investigative Process, Principles and Practical SkillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Produce a plan to test a hypothesis
- Implement a practical investigation
- Work safely in the labouratory
- Interpret results
The Living BodyReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know the role of enzymes as catalysts
- Understand body systems
- Know how the nervous and endocrine systems work
- Know the structure and functions of the human reproductive system
The Marketing EnvironmentReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of marketing within a business organisation.
- Understand the meaning and components of the term 'marketing mix'.
- Know the importance of thoroughly understanding the marketplace.
- Know the importance of understanding buyer behaviour and its impact on marketing strategies.
The Role of Family LearningReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know the range of individuals involved in a child's learning
- Understand the factors which contribute to a child's learning, including the role of family learning
- Understand how children learn through daily activities
- Understand the importance of active communication and positive interaction
- Develop and evaluate own learning
The Sociology of HealthReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand differing definitions of the concept of health
- Appreciate competing sociological approaches to the concept of mental illness
- Understand sociological views on the role of medical professionals
Time ManagementReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know how they spend their time
- Understand time management
- Use time management as a way of reducing stress
Understanding Child Protection TheoryReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship between children's needs and children's rights
- Understand the different forms that child abuse can take and the effects this can have on children
- Understand the importance of responding professionally to a child's disclosure of abuse
- Use observational skills to make and maintain appropriate records around issues of child protection
- Be aware of family circumstances which may result in abusive situations
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of key professionals in relation to child protection
- Understand the importance of confidentiality
Understanding Disability, Society and the LawReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal framework for the protection of disabled people and its place in anti-discrimination legislation in the UK
- Support people with disabilities so they are cognisant of and able to exercise their rights under the law
- Understand the current philosophies towards people who have support needs
- Understand the historical and present day attitudes in society towards people with disabilities
Understanding Finance in a Business ContextReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know key costs and expenditure for businesses
- Know about key records needed to manage finance in a business context
- Know why managing cash flow is important to businesses
- Produce and use financial documents
Understanding Mental HealthReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the term 'mental health'
- Know about methods for treating and/or controlling mental illness
- Know about aggressive behaviour
- Know about the role of therapeutic communication skills in 'mental health'
- Know about the roles and functions of agencies and individuals providing care services for people who are mentally ill
Understanding Online Business ActivitiesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know about online business activities
- Understand issues related to online business
- Know the impact of an online business presence
Understanding Retail Consumer LawReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how consumer legislation protects the rights of customers
- Know the main provisions for the protection of consumers from unfair trading practices
- Know the main provisions of consumer credit legislation in relation to retail
- Know the main provisions of data protection legislation in relation to retail
- Know the main provisions of the law relating to the sale of licenced and age-restricted products
- Understand the consequences for businesses and employees of contravening retail law
Understanding Rights and Responsibilities of CitizenshipReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an understanding of human rights
- Demonstrate an understanding of the law in a specific situation and in society
- Demonstrate understanding of the democratic and electoral process
- Demonstrate understanding of rights and responsibilities
Understanding Young People, Law and OrderReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why young people become involved in crime
- Appreciate the consequences of crime on different people
- Demonstrate knowledge of the Criminal / Youth Justice System
- Appreciate custodial and alternative forms of sentences
- Appreciate the role of a local agency
Understanding Young People, Law and OrderReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why young people might become involved in crime
- Understand the consequences of crime on different people
- Know the Criminal/Youth Justice System
- Understand custodial and alternative forms of sentences
- Know the roles of local agencies
Understanding the Physical Development of Children and Young PeopleReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the physical growth and development of children and how this relates to other aspects of their development
- Understand the necessary requirements for promoting the physical development of children
- Understand the difference between fine and gross motor skills and their development using a range of activities and different equipment
- Understand the importance of maintaining a safe environment whilst promoting the physical development of children
- Understand ways of promoting physical development in children and young people without discrimination on grounds of gender, race, cu
Using Counselling SkillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know what core counselling skills are
- Establish a helping relationship
- Use core counselling skills in a helping relationship
- Conclude a helping interaction
Using EmailReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Use email software tools and techniques to compose and send messages
- Manage incoming email effectively
Word Processing SoftwareReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Enter and combine text and other information within word processing documents
- Create and modify layout and structures for word processed documents
- Use word processing software tools to format and present documents to meet requirements
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.
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Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
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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.
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 Ascentis Level 2 Diploma in Skills for Further Education and Employment
55 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Ascentis.
- Aspects of Energy
- Biology and Our Environment
- Budgeting and Managing Money
- Business Studies
- Chemistry and Our Earth
- Child and Young Person Development
and 49 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.