Our partners
We work with trusted partners who share our commitment to equity, inclusion and meaningful learning outcomes. These partnerships strengthen how learners develop, recognise and apply their skills, while giving educators practical tools, shared language and clearer progression routes.
Through strategic collaboration, ASDAN is helping make skills more visible, more transferable and more meaningful in learning, work and life.
Our strategic partnerships with Skills Builder UK and globalbridge support ASDAN’s wider mission by strengthening skills development, progression and employability. Together, they help learners build confidence, evidence their achievements and prepare for what comes next.
Skills Builder Partnership
ASDAN is proud to work with Skills Builder UK to align ASDAN’s six core skills with the Skills Builder Universal Framework. This creates a shared language for skill development that can help practitioners strengthen delivery, support clearer feedback and recognise learners’ progress without adding unnecessary extra work.
The partnership is designed to show how ASDAN and Skills Builder can be used alongside each other, helping educators build on what they already do while making essential skills more visible and easier to articulate.
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ASDAN’s partnership with globalbridge strengthens how learners can evidence, track and share their skills and achievements. By connecting learning to digital profiling and progression pathways, globalbridge helps learners showcase their strengths and build a clearer record of achievement for further education, training and employment.
Together, ASDAN and globalbridge are helping learners make their journey more visible and helping educators support progression beyond qualification completion.
Explore our globalbridge partnershipOur collaborators
ASDAN China offer skills-based learning, student conferences and international educational programmes specialising in China, Europe, North America. Students can earn CoPE Level 3, Universities Award, Short Courses and AoPE Level 3. ASDAN China can also register schools in China to become ASDAN centres.
ASDAN worked with the Association for Language Learning (ALL) to produce and promote the Languages Short Course, which is aimed mainly, but not exclusively, at supporting core subjects in schools.
The purpose of the Awards Network is to bring together eligible organisations to:
- Promote Awards opportunities for young people in Scotland to young people and youth workers to encourage participation and improve access
- Promote information about the content, benefit and connections between Awards to prospective employers, education establishments, other stakeholders and the wider public
- Share information, skills and good practice in appropriate areas
- Conduct any other partnership project or activity which develops or promotes access to individual learning awards in Scotland
In Care, In School is a partnership project between Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) In Care Council, the Local Authority, Bath Spa University, Off The Record, ASDAN, the PSHE Association, The Who Cares? Trust, Buttle UK, VisionWorks, the National Union of Teachers and a range of other local and national partners.
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The Co-operative College is working with ASDAN to develop ways to support co-operative studies and enterprise.
ASDAN worked with the Geographical Association to produce and promote the Geography Short Course, which is aimed mainly, but not exclusively, at supporting core subjects in schools.
ASDAN worked with the Historical Association to produce and promote the History Short Course which is aimed mainly, but not exclusively, at supporting core subjects in schools.
London Citizens is an alliance of 200 schools, universities, faith and community groups. It trains people of all ages, faiths and backgrounds to take action together for change, developing local and national campaigns on issues that are important to them.
ASDAN worked with Mathematics in Education and Industry to produce and promote the Mathematics Short Course, which has been designed to develop functional mathematics skills and support learners in preparation for GCSE Mathematics.
The National Association for Advancing Autism Education focuses on improving educational outcomes for autistic learners. ASDAN aligns with their vision by creating resources and qualifications that promote equitable learning for all students.
ASDAN worked with NAC Group to produce and promote the Manufacturing Vocational Taster, which has been designed to offer learners a practical introduction to careers in the manufacturing sector.
The Wildlife Trusts are one of the UK’s leading providers of outdoor learning. With more than 500 staff and volunteers in their education teams, they work with thousands of schools and education establishments.
The Wildlife Trusts are proud to endorse the Environmental Short Course: "Connecting people and wildlife is at the heart of what we do, and we are delighted that ASDAN’s Environmental Short Course can help to support this.”
Twinkl provides teaching resources that make learning engaging and accessible. ASDAN is featured on Twinkl's platform, offering guidance and information about our accredited curriculum programmes and qualifications for learners with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
Regulators of ASDAN qualifications
ASDAN is approved as an awarding organisation for qualifications and is regulated by CCEA in Northern Ireland.
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ASDAN is approved as an awarding organisation for qualifications and is regulated by Ofqual in England.
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ASDAN is approved as an awarding organisation for qualifications and is regulated by Qualifications Wales in Wales.
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