Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), UK

SQA entered into an arrangement with the Consultants in October 2010 to help develop their market in the Indian Sub – continent. India has a very ambitious skills agenda and the consultants have already developed links with several leading organizations in India, Srilanka and Bangladesh for SQA to deliver various services to these organizations.

Edexcel International

The Consultants secured a major contract in 1998 from one of UK’s leading awarding bodies Edexcel UK to represent them in promotion of their qualifications in India to begin with and the territory of operation was extended to countries in South Asia and Africa from the year 2001. The contract was mainly to promote vocational qualifications. The Consultants after developing an annual student registration of over 3,000 per annum in India established Edexcel’s qualifications in Bangladesh, Mauritius, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Maldives which are now poised for rapid growth having achieved potential to register over 2000 students. The Consultants set up facilities to manage operations in these countries and handed over back to Edexcel for direct management. Edexcel was taken over by Pearson Education, and Edexcel decided to appoint its own employees to manage its activities in India. The Consultants handed over India operations in September 2008 with about 12500 registrations annually on Edexcel’s vocational programmes and a step change in promoting Edexcel’s academic qualifications in India.