The Fast Track runs over twelve weeks and is designed to fit around a busy working and family life. Most teaching is delivered through focused online half-day sessions, with one full microteach day and a final wrap-up and launch workshop. Between live sessions you have clear weekly tasks, portfolio milestones and implementation time built in, so you are never cramming at the last minute. You can realistically complete the work by protecting a regular block of time each week, rather than needing to disappear from your job for days at a time. The aim is simple: in three months you move from “I’d like to be a trainer one day” to fully qualified and ready to trade.

Across the twelve weeks you work towards three Ofqual-regulated teaching and assessing qualifications. You complete the Level 3 Award in Education and Training (AET), which gives you the core “train the trainer” skills to plan and deliver effective, inclusive sessions. You complete the Level 3 Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement (CAVA), which qualifies you to assess learners’ work and competence in training and workplace settings. You complete the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice (IQA), which equips you to oversee assessment decisions and run a simple, robust quality system. Alongside these three regulated awards you also complete six in-house CPD modules for training providers in safeguarding and Prevent, health and safety, data protection and GDPR, equality, diversity and inclusion, complaints, appeals and conflicts of interest, and malpractice, maladministration and quality assurance. By the end of the programme you hold three recognised qualifications and six compliance certificates that together position you as a credible, professional training provider.

The programme is structured as a clear journey rather than a collection of unrelated units. You begin with an introduction and orientation module where you choose your niche, define your flagship course and understand how AET, CAVA and IQA fit together. You then move through AET modules on understanding your learners, planning inclusive teaching and delivering a microteach that demonstrates your ability to lead a group. Once AET is consolidated, you progress into CAVA modules that cover the assessor role, assessment principles, planning and carrying out assessments, making fair decisions and managing the learner journey. After a dedicated consolidation week for CAVA, you step into IQA modules that focus on the purpose of internal quality assurance, risk-based sampling, reviewing assessment decisions and driving continuous improvement. In the later stages you complete the Compliance Essentials modules, where you train in the key legal and regulatory areas that affect training providers and adapt all the core policies you need for your own operation. The programme closes with a wrap-up and launch module where you present your course, assessment and IQA system, refine your ninety-day business plan and map your next steps to start enrolling learners.

You are never left staring at a blank page. From day one you receive a complete suite of templates, examples and tools that you can adapt and brand for your own training business. This includes schemes of work, session plans, microteach planning and observation forms, initial assessment tools, assessment plans, decision records, feedback forms, tracking sheets, IQA sampling plans, IQA reports, standardisation minutes, annual quality cycle planners and policy templates for safeguarding, health and safety, data protection, equality and diversity, complaints, appeals, conflicts of interest and malpractice. You also have access to recorded content where appropriate, a suggested digital folder structure for organising your evidence, and simple completion checklists for each qualification. Live sessions give you the chance to see how documents are used in practice, ask questions and receive coaching. Written feedback on your assignments and portfolio pieces helps you understand what is working well and what needs strengthening so you can move forward with confidence.

This is a results-focused programme, not a stack of logins. If you attend the scheduled live sessions, complete the set tasks and respond to feedback, we will support you with marking and reasonable extensions until you achieve your AET, CAVA and IQA qualifications, even if that occasionally means continuing support slightly beyond the twelve weeks. You will never be left midway through a qualification just because an arbitrary calendar date has passed. We cannot promise a specific income figure or guarantee that clients will appear without action on your part, because that depends on your niche and your effort. What we do guarantee is that if you put the work in, you will leave with the right qualifications, a complete paperwork and compliance pack and a clear, practical plan to start or grow your training business. If at the very start you realise the programme is clearly not right for you, speak to us promptly and we will work with you to find a fair solution. The commitment on both sides is simple: we bring the structure, expertise and support; you bring the effort and follow-through. Together, that is what gets you from “thinking about it” to fully qualified and ready to trade.