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Educators first. We have run the programmes we build for.

VON Learning is run by education professionals with more than twenty years between us in further education and awarding. We have taught on vocational programmes, led them, and built the resources and assessment that sit behind them.

Between us we have taught on vocational programmes and led them as programme managers in colleges, and we have written, reviewed and produced resources for awarding organisations across the UK in a range of sectors. Curriculum design, internal quality assurance, standardisation, external moderation: we have sat on every side of the table.

That history is the reason the resources look the way they do. We have written the schemes of work, sat through the standardisation meetings, and stood in front of the class that says it cannot do maths. What shifts a group like that is not more slides. It is putting the subject where the learner already is.

So we build for the person marking the work as much as the person doing it. Every package arrives with the mapping, the mark schemes and the reporting a quality team needs, because we have been the ones asked to produce them at short notice.

20+ yearsIn FE and awarding

UK wideColleges and awarding bodies

Multi sectorVocational programmes

What the name stands for

VVocational

OOnline

NNetwork

Vocational Online Network Learning. It names the model as much as the product: vocational subjects, delivered online, across a network of centres, awarding bodies and employers who all work from the same evidence.

It also names the job. Vocational learners rarely struggle with a subject in the abstract; they struggle with it out of context. Our work is to put it back.

Maths→on an engineering shop floor
English→in a sports academy
Numeracy→on a construction site
Science→in a care setting

Contextualised learning

The subject does not change. Where it happens does.

A learner who has decided they are not a maths person will still work out whether a part is inside tolerance, because that answer decides whether it ships. Six examples of the pairings we build for.

Engineering Maths on the shop floor

Tolerances, scrap rates and tool life. Bounds stop being a rule to memorise the moment they decide whether a shaft fits a bore.

Sport English in a sports academy

Match reports, session plans and a trial letter. Writing a player will be judged on, marked against the same criteria as any other piece.

Construction Numeracy on site

Setting out, quantities and waste allowance. A miscalculation here is a skip full of plasterboard and a conversation with the site manager.

Health and social care Science in a care setting

Observations, dosage and infection control. Biology with a person attached, and a record that has to stand up afterwards.

Hospitality Numeracy in a kitchen

Portion costs, gross profit and stock rotation. Percentages that decide whether the kitchen makes money this week.

Business English in an office

Minutes, a complaint response and an email that lands the right side of firm. Tone treated as a skill, because it is one.

These are examples. Tell us the qualification and the sector and we will map the pairings that fit your provision.

What it means for you

Three things that come from having done the job.

Mapping you can defend

We write the coverage map before a single screen is designed, because we have been the ones asked to prove coverage at inspection with a week's notice.

Criteria firstGap visible

Marking that matches the scheme

Auto-marking follows the same mark scheme a tutor works from, with method marks and accepted tolerances set by subject-matter experts working in the sector.

Method marksTolerances

Reporting a quality team can use

Attempt-level evidence an IQA can take straight into a sampling meeting, with the awarding body seeing the same picture across every centre.

IQA exportsGroup view

Work with us

Bring us a specification and we will show you what it looks like built.

Thirty minutes, screen shared, your criteria on the table. We will walk through a live package, show the reporting a centre and an awarding body each see, and be straight with you about what it would take to do the same for yours.

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