Welcome to the City & Guilds e-Quals web site.

e-Quals is an up-to-date suite of IT qualifications designed in consultation with business and leading industry experts. It is aimed anyone wanting to improve their IT skills, whether as a computer user or as an IT professional. This website will provide you with the information you need to decide which qualification and level is suitable for you.

You'll be pleased to hear that while it is true that e-Quals as it is will be expiring in August 07 we shall be providing a revised and updated e-Quals 07 version that will be accredited for at least another 3 years - so until 2010.

Here are some key points and improved features of this updated version:

Automatic approval for existing e-Quals centres
All units updated and streamlined
All IT User units mapped 100% to ITQ
'Spiky profile' Practitioner qualifications mixing levels
IT User and non-IT units available in the Diploma and Advanced Diploma for IT Practitioners
New IT User units including web graphics and animation.
All IT User assignment times standardised - User L1 - 1 hour, L2 - 1½, L3 - 2 hours
Three or five unit qualifications available for User at all levels
Worked examples of assignments to be provided as part of support materials

A new section of the City & Guilds website is currently in development and will be live soon, which will be: www.cityandguilds.com/e-quals07

This site is currently under construction, so watch this space....

Latest news and product updates

Don’t forget that e-Quals IT User awards can count towards your ITQ (IT Users N/SVQ). Visit www.cityandguilds.com/itq for more information on ITQ.

Level 1 Certifiacte in Systems Support PC Maintenance
City & Guilds is pleased to announce the availability of a unit route for candidates wishing to take one unit only from the level 1 Certificate in Systems Support – PC Maintenance.
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7262-11 Updated directory page - Download

September 2005 - Coming soon to e-Quals

IT Mixed-User Skill units
The Qualifications Curriculum Authority (QCA) has accredited 3 new optional units into the e-Quals IT User award. These units will provide tasters of different IT User units, giving you an opportunity to experience elements of the larger units before deciding the areas in which you want to further develop your skills. The new units are as follows:

Office Fundamental (levels 1 and 2) consisiting of Word Processing, Spreadsheets and Presentation Graphics
Communication through IT consisting of Word Processing, Using e-mail and Using the Internet

These units will be available from September 2005.

Digital Imaging and Design through IT

Digital Imaging
We are expanding our range of e-Quals units and have recently submitted a Digital Imaging unit (level 2) to QCA for accreditation. The aim of this unit is to enable you to create and prepare digital images for a variety of proprietary software. The emphasis is on using software to acquire, enhance and adjust images rather than on artistic content
Design through IT
This will also be a mixed-user skill unit combining the DTP, Website Design and Digital Imaging units, again allowing you to experience elements of all three areas.

These two units will be available from October 2005.

1 February 2005 Network+ and Security+

After the success of the A+ route through Diploma in Systems Support, we have added CompTIA's Security+ and Network+ as optional units to the Advanced Diploma in Systems Support. Click here to find out more.

Click here to find out what former students think about e-Quals

17 July 2003 - Rise of the super assistant
According to new research "super assistants" are now ruling the UK workplace, with the majority of PAs believing that they are more qualified than their bosses due to their IT and business administration skills.

Click here to read more about the rise of the "super assistant"

15 May 2003 - Press release from East Riding College (PDF 36.9 kb)

08 January 2003 - Evening Standard - "High hopes for an e-Quals partnership"

28 August 2002 - Islington Gazette "How to boost your e-Quals"