Courses

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, ISES (International Special Events Society) and Eventia.

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 with Director, Kylie Carlson, speaking at many industry events including: The Special Event Show, The Event Solutions Idea Factory and the Australian Event Symposium.

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:

• Accredited Wedding Consultant - Certificate in Wedding Planning
• Accredited Event Planner - Certificate in Event Planning
• Accredited Event Designer - Certificate in Event Design
• Accredited Wedding Planner and Designer  - Diploma in Wedding Planning, Styling and Design and Advanced Diploma in 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.
• ISES UK (International Special Event Society) - an association that sits at the heart of the worldwide event industry, and is truly International with a network of over 7000 members across the world.
• Eventia - recognised as the official trade body for the events and live marketing industry.
• UKRLP (UK Register of Learning Providers) - The Academy is registered with the UK Government's Register of Learning Providers

Qualifications and National Framework

The Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) is a framework that is replacing the existing National Qualifications Framework (NQF). It is a new way of recognising skills and qualifications, by awarding credit for qualifications and units (small steps of learning). It enables people to gain qualifications at their own pace along flexible routes.

The QCF is designed to make sure future qualifications allow a flexible, 'mix and match' approach to meeting the different development needs of the workforce.

Every unit and qualification in the framework will have both a credit value and a level:

• One credit represents 10 hours of average learning time and so the credit value shows how much time it takes to complete.
• The level shows how difficult the unit or qualification is and this can be anywhere between entry level and level 8.

There are three sizes of qualification in the QCF:

• Award (1-12 credits)
• Certificate (13-36 credits) 
• Diploma (above 36 credits) - not linked to the 14-19 Diploma.

Fees and Payments

The Academy offers several different payment options, as we do understand how hard it is to find extra money for training in the current economic climate. We also offer several different methods as follows:

• Paypal – it is a free service and is available to anyone with an email address. It is the safe and secure way to make your course payment.
• Credit or Debit Card – use your Visa or Mastercard to make your course payments either by phoning through to our Admissions Office or by filling out an Enrolment Form and emailing it through.
• Online – use our secure server to pay for your course online. Your payment will be processed automatically and verified through our payment gateway Eway.
• Request an Invoice – if you require an invoice for tax purposes please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) so we can organise this for you
• Direct Deposit or BACS payment – if you would like to make a payment directly into our bank account then please use the details below:

Account Name: Academy of Wedding and Event Planning
Sort Code: 08-71-99
Account No: 81283218

Tutors

The role of tutor is a hugely important one and this is not something we take lightly here at UKAWEP. Our tutors are handpicked and have all studied the courses they tutor on themselves, so they have an insight into the courses both as students and tutors. This is invaluable.

We believe it is important that our tutors are also working planners, stylist or designers, as well as tutoring for the Academy. We have been asked if this affects their commitment to the students and our answer is a categorical NO. It is imperative that tutors are still working in the field within which they are tutoring, that way they can really give their students advice that is current and will work in today’s technology driven world.

All our tutors are given a code of ethics to sign and agree to abide by our 10 day turnaround rule on assignments. From the day a student submits an assignment our tutors have 10 working days to mark the assignment and provide the student with comprehensive feedback and their grade. Most of our tutors will actually turn the assignments around a lot quicker than this, but the guideline has been set in place to allow the student to move on with their next assignment without having to wait for feedback for too long.