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Facilities Management Qualifications Options: An Overview

This page introduces you to the different awarding bodies and the qualifications they offer as well as indicating some of the basic differences.

Once you have read the information, you may wish to proceed to the section entitled: Deciding Learning Levels: Your First Step

All of the key information is also available from our full printable booklet here, or for a shortened version, click here.

Armed Forces leavers seeking ELCAS funding entitlement can download their own booklet here:
Qualifications Format
Until 2009 the range of Facilities Management qualification courses that tuition providers could offer had been somewhat limited, restricted in the main to offering learners help in studying for the British Institute of Facilities Management Part I, Part II and ‘Qual’ and also from 2004 when the City & Guilds Facilities Management Foundation programme was introduced.
 

New Qualifications Format

The nature of nationally recognisable qualifications is changing and during 2010 almost all qualifications will have changed to incorporate the same structure, or format. The purpose of this section is to provide an overview of the new format and serve as a tool that allows prospective learners to decide which qualification type would suit them best and to make the right choices accordingly.

Why the Change?

It is not uncommon for people to wonder why a change is taking place, but the following analogy should help in some way. Traditionally, all qualifications had their own name such as:

-        City & Guilds FM Foundation programme

-        BIFM Part I / Part II / The Qual

-        PRINCE II Practitioner

-        Introduction to Project Management

-        Recognition in Management Principles

          ... and so on

Clearly it would be hard to know which has more relevance or importance when compared to another. The new qualifications have names or titles such as:

-        Level 2 Award in Supervisory Management

-        Level 3 Award in Facilities Management

-        Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management

-        Level 4 Diploma in Facilities Management

-        Level 4 Diploma in Project Management

-        Level 5 Certificate in Facilities Management

-        Level 5 Diploma in Personnel Management

There is a clear theme to the above and the idea of different Levels together with the terms Award, Certificate and Diploma will be explained in the pages that follow.

How to Choose the Most Suitable Qualification and Training Programme

Starting on the next page we introduce you to the five steps that are the basis for choosing the right training solution and provide you with guidance for understanding each, thereafter using any decisions to identify the best training programme for individual’s circumstances.

If you wish to discuss any of the steps we provide to you please contact us for guidance and advice. Our full contact details are given on Page 36 but in the meantime, they are indicated briefly below.

E-mail:             enquiries@blue-eye-training.co.uk

 
For your help and information: This web page is also Page 2 of the printable booklet