Accreditation
The Academy is an approved NCFE Training Centre and ALL our courses are accredited through NCFE who are a recognised awarding body. We are also an Approved Member of the International Association for Distance Learning and our courses are endorsed by the Association For Wedding Professionals International.
Formal Accreditation
We are the ONLY training institution in the UK specialising in wedding planning, styling and design offering courses that are accredited by a recognised awarding body. Other institutions are general distance learning colleges and do not focus purely and solely on weddingsAll students studying with the Academy will get a national award equivalent to either a Level 3 or Level 4 of the National Learning Framework depending on the course they enrol in. NCFE is recognised as an awarding body by the qualification regulators ('regulators') for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The regulators are the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator (Ofqual) in England, the Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills (DCELLS) in Wales and the Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) in Northern Ireland. Below you will find our Approved Centre details but if you would like to know more about how our courses fit into the Qualifications and Credit Framework click here.
Centre Number: 8462698
Centre Name: Academy of Wedding and Event Planning
The Academy is nationally and internationally recognised as a professional Wedding and Event training organisation. All students who successfully complete a Certificate or Diploma course with the Academy will become ‘Accredited’ by the Academy in their area of study. As an ‘Accredited’ member of the Academy you will be given a Certificate or Diploma and an accreditation logo that you can use to demonstrate your own professionalism to prospective employers and clients.
The Academy has an International Accreditation Program as follows:
- Certified Wedding Consultant - Certificate of Wedding Planning
- Certified Event Planner - Certificate of Event Planning
- Certified Event Designer - Certificate of Event Design
- Certified Wedding Planner and Designer - Diploma of Wedding Planning, Styling and Design and Advanced Diploma of Special Event Planning and Design
Industry memberships include:
- IADL (International Association of Distance Learning)The International Association for Distance Learning promotes excellence in open, distance and online learning worldwide, and provides a benchmark through which global consumers can gauge the quality of courses offered by their members.
- AFWPI (Association for Wedding Professionals International) the mission of AFWPI is to help people in the wedding industry succeed in business
- LERN (Learning Resources Network) LERN is an international association of lifelong learning programming, offering information and resources to providers of lifelong learning programs.
