The HAB Level 2 NVQ in Multi-Skilled Hospitality Services allows for candidates to undertake units from all Level 2 job areas – thus is likely to be suitable for those working in micro and small and medium sized enterprises that need to be skilled in a variety of functional areas.
As such the qualification would allow a candidate progression either into the workplace as detailed above or onto specialised qualifications at the same, or a higher, level.
Centres will have a choice of independent assessment models and should use the most suitable model for the individual:
1) Written open-ended questions supplied by HAB and kept securely by the centre tested under controlled conditions.
2) Oral testing of candidates on open-ended questions supplied by HAB and kept securely by the centre tested under controlled conditions. Where oral questioning takes place candidates must give their own answers and not be led to the answer by prompting.
3) Centres can be tested via a multiple-choice facility - GOLA which is being made available to HAB centres via HAB's partner City & Guilds.
4) Questions submitted to the Awarding Body by an Assessment Centre or third party, checked and approved for use by HAB. These questions must meet the requirements of the new Assessment Strategy.
The above models of independent assessment can be used in combination.
In all cases candidates can repeat the test until a minimum of a 70% pass mark is achieved. Centres can increase the pass mark at their discretion, as long as it does not constitute an unfair barrier to achievement. Centres must keep a record of their pass mark.
Those questions answered incorrectly can then be assessed by other means, such as oral questioning or a repeat of written questions. Candidates must have, to the satisfaction of the assessor, achieved a 70% pass mark on the test and all of the remaining questions before the ‘what you must know’ can be deemed as complete.
All other aspects of assessment for the NVQ will remain unchanged from the original submission.
Candidates must complete both units in Group A plus seven optional units chosen from a minimum of three of the five optional Groups B - F. There are also some optional mandatories, and no more than three Level 1 optional units may be completed.