AA
Advanced Apprenticeship

Agency Staff
Temporary staff employed by your company through an employment agency or recruitment service.

APL
Accreditation of Prior Learning

APP
Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship
An apprenticeship is an alternative progression route from school to higher education. It is a model for a holistic learning process which takes learners through the full experiential learning ‘cycle’, combining on-the-job and off-the-job learning activities.

Assessed Route of Entry
A means of allowing an experienced individual to gain a qualification through an assessment of experience, rather than training.

AVCE
Advanced Vocational Certificates of Education

Awarding Body
ConstructionSkills works together with City & Guilds as an ‘Awarding Body’. The main jobs of an Awarding Body are to approve centres and assessors, monitor the assessment process and award NVQ/SVQ and unit certificates. It carries out external verification to ensure that candidates are being assessed fairly and consistently across all centres.