AIT Training Developments is a leading motor industry training consultancy appointed by the Institute of the Motor Industry to author the Automotive Management qualifications to Ofqual standards. We have worked with formal qualifications in the automotive industry specialising for many years in management skills knowledge and practices. The F-Gas handling qualifications were added to our portfolio in 2015.
Our business is founded on our belief in and commitment to, the people in the automotive industry. The showrooms and workshops that represent motor manufacturers’ brands and independent businesses around the UK can only be as successful as the levels of professional management and operational skills that are engaged in each site.
The role of AIT Training Developments is to provide the knowledge and skills that underpin best practise in management and authorise specific skills that add to the portfolio of resources for automotive operations.
We also believe that a good manager or specialist operator should have the recognition for their knowledge, skills and abilities; hence our decision to offer career influencing qualifications that are recognised nationally across the UK automotive industry.
The qualifications offered by AIT Training Developments are approved by and registered with the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) a non-ministerial government department that regulates qualifications, exams and tests in England.
Ofqual regulates exams, qualifications and tests in England; the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) is also accredited by Ofqual.
Ofqual works closely with the UK government, the Department for Education and with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on vocational qualifications including VRQs to set and maintain standards for nationally recognised qualifications.
The Ofqal register of qualifications can be found at: register.ofqual.gov.uk
You can review any qualification on the website by simply entering the relevant qualification number (as shown on each of the qualification information pages on this website).
The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) is the Awarding Body who determines the structure of the qualification standards. The IMI is also the Sector Skills Council; the Council comprises of experts from automotive manufacturers, retail groups and training providers, all of whom contribute to set the standards and the structures of the qualification programmes offered by the Institute and fully support the need to up-skill and recognise motor industry managers and their teams.
The management qualifications were developed by IMI in response to the industry’s need for managers to be both proficiently trained in the management of efficient, profitable automotive business and to be recognised for their skills and abilities to assist with a reliable foundation when recruiting or developing managers. The programme was developed in conjunction with automotive managers, motor manufacturers, dealer groups, training providers and the IMI Sector Skills Council, whom all recognise the need to prepare and up-skill the automotive managers of the future.
