Print NVQs are work-related, competence based qualifications.
Print NVQs reflect the skills and knowledge needed to do a job effectively.
Print NVQs represent national standards recognised by employers throughout the country.
If you have a National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) it shows that you can do the work for which it has been awarded to national standards. It means you are competent in this kind of work.

Print NVQs are qualifications for work and show you can actually do a job, and not simply that you know how to do it in theory.

They are made up of units which describe the skills and knowledge needed to do a job effectively.