NEWS
1 JULY 2024
BWYQ article on the new Occupational Standards and the Ofqual-regulated IfATE Level 3 qualifcations published today in the Summer Issue of Om Yoga Magazine
BWYQ-article-Occupational-Standards-Om-Yoga-magazine-summer-2024
10 JUNE 2024
BWYQ’s Annual Report of the Trustees and Financial Statements for 30-10-23 published on Companies House – see pp 5-6 for reports on the YoGAD pilot study and the Level 3 Qualifications’ success news!
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16 MAY 2024
The Department for Education (DfE) has approved all of BWYQ’s new Level 3 Technical Occupational Qualifications for Level 3 Legal Entitlement funding, additionally the Teaching Yoga certificate is eligible for Advanced Learner Loans.
4 May 2024
1 May 2024
BWYQ Trustee-Director Michele Misgalla attended the Awarding Organisation Forum at Woburn House, London and found out all the latest news about vocational education in the UK and beyond.
23 MARCH 2024
The last session of the Yoga for Generalised Anxiety Disorder (YOGAD) pilot research study funded by the National Lottery Community Fund ended today and now the BWYQ Research Team are analysing the results. See Research page for more information.
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22 MARCH 2024
The British Wheel of Yoga Qualifications (BWYQ) have moved registered office address to:
18 St. Cross Street, 4 th Floor
London
EC1N 8UN
8 March 2024 - NEWS FROM IfATE AND OFQUAL
After 10 months of meetings, submissions, more meetings, re-drafts of multiple documents for each qualification, BWYQ finally received APPROVAL for the four new Level 3 qualifications that meet the new Occupational standards for Teaching Yoga and for Adapting and Developing exercise for specialist target groups: Antenatal Yoga, Postnatal Yoga and Mindbody Exercises for Older Adults (independently active older adults).
A big thank you to BWYQ coordinator Jenny Howsam for her diligent work in getting these qualifications approved by both IfATE and Ofqual that are now on the Ofqual Register, the “Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF)”