Lisa is currently working in a networking support role assisting schools. To recognize her skills and progress her career, a Level 2 Diploma in ICT Professional Competence is proposed. This 48 credit qualification includes mandatory units in health and safety (3 credits) and customer service (6 credits), with optional units selected from hardware maintenance, software installation, and networking fundamentals to total 48 credits and provide a recognized qualification for her work.

1. PROCOM – The OCR
Package
Presented by John Deacon
OCR Business Manager

4. Objectives
• To give you a short overview of the OCR
Procom qualifications and how they
evolved
• To explain the benefits of the OCR
package
• To give you a flavour of the unit design
capabilities (group exercise)

5. QCF – A Brief Overview
• New way of recognising achievement:
awarding credit for units and
qualifications
• Qualifications titles, sizes and levels
(entry→ L8) standardised nationally:
– Awards (1-12 credits),
– Certificates (13-36 credits),
– Diplomas (37+ credits)

6. Ofqual Equivalences Diagram

7. Background to Procom
• In conjunction with industry leaders,
employers, providers and the joint
awarding body forum, e-skills UK ltd
launched the new IT Professional
Framework and subsequent
qualifications in September this year
• Framework owned by e-skills but
awarding bodies have the autonomy to
establish their own assessment models
and product surround

8. What has Procom to offer
• Ever increasing list of units that will give
you the ability to design multiple
solutions/templates to suite the needs of
an individual or employer
• Ability to set your own scenarios which
you can be sure will be fit for purpose

9. NQF to QCF - OCR’s Transition
• NQF
– OCR NVQ IT
Practitioner/
Professional L1-4
– OCR iPro
L1-3
• QCF (PROCOM)
– OCR ICT Professional
Competence L2 & 3
rubbish
– OCR ICT Systems
and Principles
(PROCOM)

10. OCR Level 2 and 3 in ICT Professional
Competence (equal to the old NVQ)

11. OCR ICT Systems and Principals for IT
Practitioners/Professionals Levels 2 and 3
(equal to the old iPro)

12. Apprenticeship Structure

13. Units
• There are 185 units within the suite,
made up of mandatory, optional, vendor
units and restricted units (ITQ)
• Restrictions on the ITQ units within
Competence are as follows:
Level 2 – 12 Credits
Level 3 – 24 Credits

14. Spiky Profile – Cross Level
Achievement
• Level 3 Certificate in ICT Systems and
Principles – example of achievement
L3
Mandatory
Unit –
Customer
Care – 7
credits
L3 Optional
unit –
Computer
Forensics –
8 credits
L2
CompTIA
DHTi+ – 9
credits
Candidate
achieves a full
level 3 qualification
at 24 credits,
meeting the
minimum 15 credit
requirements at L3
and units from
adjacent level
=

15. How does the assessment work?
• All units apart from the vendor tested solutions are centre
assessed and externally moderated by OCR. Centres
devise activities/scenarios that enable candidates to meet
the unit assessment criteria
• OCR will be devising example materials, however, in the
meantime, OCR has produced specific assessment
requirements within each unit (see OCR website)
• OCR recommends that subject content and associated
skills be referenced to real life situations

16. External moderation
• On receipt of entries, an OCR Moderator is
appointed to moderate centre assessment
decisions
• Centres have the option to post work to the OCR
Moderator, or allow access to their e - portfolio
system
• If e-portfolio used, all candidate work must be
centralised and easy to access
• If you need a visit, we can arrange

17. Stop press……………unlimited access to
vendor tests
• As a result of customer feedback, OCR is
presently making an amendment to Ofqual in
order to offer open and unlimited access to
optional vendor units within Systems and
Principles (Competence is already unlimited)
• A new Technical Certificate will be developed
that will conform to the e-skills requirement of
limited vendor restrictions for apprenticeships

18. Fees
• Up front entry fees, no certification fees or approval fees
Single unit £18.30
Level 2 Award Systems £38.50
Level 2 Cert Systems £76.90
Level 2 Dip Systems £117.20
Level 3 Award Systems £38.50
Level 3 Cert Systems £76.90
Level 3 Dip Systems £115.30
Level 3 Ext Dip Systems £153.80
Level 2 Dip Competence £128.10
Level 3 Dip Competence £153.80

19. Making entries
• Named or unnamed through OCR Interchange
• Unit or full qualification entry
• Interchange will give you useful MIS

20. Claiming certificates
• Electronic claims via Interchange
• Some forms remaining (batching)
• Interchange will give you useful MIS
• 28 working days turnaround

21. The OCR offer
• Unlimited vendor tests (unique to OCR)
• Moderation, no visits unless requested
• On- line support materials (end of year)
• Use of e-portfolio
• Electronic entry (allowing for drop-outs)
• E-claims
•

22. Who to contact
New business: John Deacon
Business Manager - 07730 955256
john,deacon@ocr.org.uk
Syllabus enquiries: Karen Milliner,
Qualifications – 02476 470033
karen.milner@ocr.org.uk
General enquiries: Customer Contact
Centre - 02476851509

23. A qualification for Lisa

24. SCENARIO – LISA JONES
Twenty year old Lisa Jones has been working with Bogshire County
Council for just over a year. Lisa is a trusted assistant with the schools
networking support unit who are responsible for maintaining IT networks
and installing software etc across 14 schools within the county.
Lisa has picked up a number of skills over the past year and is trusted to
carry out several tasks but with some supervision.
Both Lisa and the team leader feel that a nationally recognised
qualification would greatly benefit Lisa and the team as a whole. Lisa has
been involved in the following areas:

25. SCENARIO – LISA JONES
• Working with Hardware and Equipment
• Arranging visits and job requests with the school ICT
Heads of Departments
• Setting up and maintaining school security systems
• Fault finding/diagnosis
• Conforming to Health and Safety regulations
• Worked under supervision on the ICT help desk
• Installing software
• Involved in the fundamentals of networks
• Advising Heads of Departments on all ICT issues and
council directives
• Testing systems

26. SCENARIO – LISA JONES
From this information, build a suitable qualification for Lisa from the units provided.
Select labels/units and stick it on the cardboard provided to form a qualification
Write you explanation of the model you have chosen on the bottom of the cardboard
OCR Level 2/3 Diploma in ICT Professional Competence (Procom)
Level 2: Full qualification: 48 credits, Mandatory units1 and 3 (9 credits) Maximum of 29
credits at the level of the qualification, remaining credits can be at level 2 or 3
Level 3: Full qualification: 72 credits, Mandatory units 2 and 3 (12 credits)
Maximum of 44 credits at the level of the qualification, remaining credits
can be at level 2, 3 or 4