About AlphaPlus
Who we are
AlphaPlus is a team of highly experienced educational consultants with a large and varied portfolio of work in education and training. We can offer potential contractors expertise in most areas of expertise and training. The strengths of the team include research and evaluation; statistical analysis; assessment and public examinations; teaching; writing; publishing and educational development work.
All of the Directors of the AlphaPlus core team have experience managing large projects.
All of the team are self-employed, which gives them considerable flexibilty and ensures complete commitment to any contract work.
AlphaPlus Associates - AlphaPlus has also developed a network of associates who frequently join the core team for individual projects, on a freelance basis. The combination of Core and Associates works well and enables us to deliver quality products on time and within budget.
What we do
The AlphaPlus team's expertise lies in:
- National assessment and public examinations
- Vocational qualifications
- Project, programme and materials evaluation
- On-screen and on-line testing (basic and Key skills) and ESOL
- Education and training materials development
- Educational consultancy and advice in the UK and abroad
- Educational prject management
- Local authority education and training
- Consultancy services for industry
AlphaPlus team members have carried out work in the past five years for:
- Department for Education and Science (DfES)
- Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA)
- Adult Basic Skills Strategy Unit (ABSSU)
- Granada Learning Ltd.
- Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA)
- Cambridge Education Consultants
- The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE)
- Asian Development Bank
- Institute of Legal Services
- DfID
- Hong Kong Examinations Authority
- University for Industry (UFI)
- Bradford Technology Ltd. (BTL)
Education - AlphaPlus can help you to:
- Review and evaluate current curriculum and assessment provision
- Implement teaching courses/programmes
- Evaluate national projects
- Establish institutional policies for assessment and diagnostic materials for learners
- Devise and implement quality assurance procedures
- Design and produce initial assessment and diagnostic materials for learners
- Develop in-house professional development programmes
- Maximise the use of ICT as an aid to teaching and learning
- Plan for the intergration of basic and key skills in programmes of learning
- Develop and gain accreditation for work-related activities
- Design, implement and analyse surveys involving large scale data collection.
How we do it
Industry - AlphaPlus can help you to:
- Evaluate your current training programmes against your defined needs
- Devise programmes in terms of competence based outcomes
- Adopt or adapt NVQ standards and obtain validation for your training
- Develop quality assurance procedures
- Prepare training materials, including flexible and distance learning packages
- Secure coherence between your training programmes and your mentoring and appraisal systems
- Identify value-added criteria to judge the effectiveness of training
- Design, implement and analyse surveys involving large scale data collection.
- Design and produce assessment tools.
