Awards are issued to centres weekly as required. Awards are sent by recorded delivery or courier service.

Certificates will only be issued for new approvals after the initial external verifier visit. An occupationally competent and qualified internal verifier should ensure that all certificate claims are valid. 

An awards list will be issued with each timetabled awards run, which can be used to claim output-related funding. This list will identify an LSC if the information was given to us on registration. We will also send these details monthly to the LSC for their audit purposes.

Certificates will not be issued until at least 10 weeks after registration has taken place.

Edexcel reserves the right to:

• refuse to accept new registrations from a centre, if the centre has a debt outstanding to Edexcel at the due date of submission of new registrations
  
• withhold certificates from the centre, if the centre has a debt outstanding to Edexcel at the due date of the issue of certificates.

   
Evidence of achievement

Successful completion of all programme requirements will be recognised by the award of an NVQ certificate, as appropriate, together with a back-up document, the Certificate of Unit Credit, which lists all units successfully completed.

Where the candidate does not complete all programme elements, a Certificate of Unit Credit will automatically be issued. It will list all the units that have been successfully completed. This document gives evidence of completion so that all units successfully achieved may be used as credits in the future. It also allows candidates to retake or add units under the same registration, free of charge, throughout registration validity.

Successful completion of individual units is recognised by the award of a Certificate of Unit Credit, which lists all units satisfactorily completed.

You can find more information about certification and documentation, including award dates and certificates of unit credit, by referring to chapter 16, section 21 (p436) onwards of the information manual.  

This chapter is available for download from this page if you prefer to view it online.