Pharez College

Pharez College aims to facilitate open access to its general and vocational qualifications, for candidates who are eligible for access arrangements or special consideration in assessments, without compromising the assessment of the skills, knowledge, understanding or competence being
measured.

This will be achieved through:

• Access Arrangements
These are agreed at the pre-assessment/pre-planning planning stage and help to reduce the effect of a disability or difficulty, which places the candidate at a substantial disadvantage in the assessment situation. Access arrangements must not, however, affect the reliability or validity of assessment outcomes nor must they give the candidate an assessment advantage over other candidates undertaking the same or similar assessments.

• Special Consideration
This is a post-assessment /post examination allowance to reflect temporary illness, injury or indisposition that occurred at the time of assessment. Any special consideration granted cannot remove the difficulty the candidate faced at the time of assessment and can only be a relatively small adjustment to ensure that the integrity of the assessment is not compromised. Special consideration cannot apply to “licence to practise” units within a qualification, or to “licence to practise” qualifications.