CfA

About the sector

Management & Leadership has been identified as a strategic area of importance across the UK economy in both the private and public sectors. The development of management skills across the UK has been at the forefront of Government policy over the past decade, where Management & Leadership skills are crucial to ensuring that organisations operate effectively and efficiently - often making the difference between a successful organisation and an unsuccessful one.

Approximately 4.5 million employees within the UK operate within management roles or require management skills, with a strong take-up of both academic and vocational management qualifications helping to develop the UK managers’ skills pool.

Management skills cross a number of qualification levels, from team leading based roles to strategic management and chief executive roles. The CfA works with qualifications providers to ensure that a range of qualifications exists to meet these needs, and that the qualifications reflect industry need as accurately as possible.

National Occupational Standards

A single suite of standards has been developed to cover Management & Leadership related job functions. To view the standards please visit our Management and Leadership standards web page.

Go to management and leadership standards pages

Qualifications

A wide range of both vocational and academic management and leadership qualifications are available within the UK and internationally, including a number of NVQs/SVQS and Apprenticeships, as follows:

• NVQ/SVQ in Management at levels 2, 3, 4 and 5
• Apprenticeship in Team Leading at level 2
• Apprenticeship/Modern Apprenticeship in Management at level 3

Further details of these qualifications can be found on the qualifications pages.

Contact

For more information on Management and Leadership work undertaken by CfA, please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  or call on 020 7091 9620.