Competence, not attendance
Awards are made on assessed performance in a real occupational setting, not on hours spent in a classroom.
Phase 01 admissions · KampalaCompetence you can demonstrate. Credentials you can carry.
For certification bodies
A catalogue
built to be
certified.
The Applied Skills Institute of East Africa is a proposed applied-skills institute in Kampala. We have designed 34 courses across 9 occupational fields, each built backwards from one employer question: can this person do the job on day one? We are now looking for certification bodies to review, map and certify them.
34 COURSESOne structure
9 FIELDSOccupational areas
8,189 HOURSNotional learning
LEVELS 2–4Proposed
What we are trying to achieve
Skills employers
can trust on sight.
Too often, a vocational certificate tells an employer little about what its holder can actually do. ASIEA is designed to close that gap, and external certification is how the answer becomes credible beyond our own walls.
Evidence behind every award
Each award is backed by a portfolio an employer or auditor can inspect: what was observed, against which criterion, and by whom.
A ladder, not a dead end
Short awards, Foundation, Occupational and Advanced Certificates stack from entry-level work to supervisory practice.
Recognition beyond ASIEA
External certification, so the award carries across employers, across borders and into further study. This is where we need you.
What we have built
The catalogue
at a glance.
34 courses in 9 occupational fields, from short awards to Advanced Certificates. Every field is colour-tagged across the site, and every course opens to a full specification page.
12Short Course AwardsLevel 2–3 · 24–220 hours
5Foundation CertificatesLevel 2 · 180–240 hours
12Occupational CertificatesLevel 3 · 260–520 hours
5Advanced CertificatesLevel 4 · 170–300 hours
How every course is specified
Written
to be mapped.
Every course page carries the same specification, so it can be read side by side with your own qualification structure. Here is one of the flagship programmes, exactly as it is specified on the site.
- A course code and a proposed level, so each course can be placed against your level descriptors.
- Notional hours, unit by unit, allocated to every unit, not only to the course as a whole.
- A fixed delivery split, the share of online and in-person learning, stated in advance.
- Named assessment methods, observation, product evidence, professional discussion and invigilated knowledge tests.
- Written entry requirements, including recognition of prior learning where it applies.
- Target occupations, the roles a course prepares people for, so outcomes can be checked against the job.
- Criterion-referenced assessment, the flagship programmes publish their observation criteria; the rest of the catalogue will follow with a partner.
Course specificationEA-HOS-301
- Course
- Bar & Beverage Service Operations
- Award & level
- Occupational Certificate · Level 3 (proposed)
- Notional hours
- 460 hours over 24 weeks
- Delivery
- 55% online · 45% in person. Practical competence is assessed in person only.
- Units
- 01The Bar Environment & Professional Conduct60h
- 02Food Safety & Hygiene in Beverage Service45h
- 03Beverage Knowledge: Wine, Beer & Spirits80h
- 04Mixology & Drink Production95h
- 05Table, Floor & Guest Service85h
- 06Stock, Cost & Bar Control55h
- 07Guest Recovery & Service Under Pressure40h
- Assessment
- Live service observation · Product evidence · Professional discussion · Knowledge assessment
- Entry
- 17 years or older at the start of the programme · Senior Four (UCE) or equivalent — or recognition of prior learning for experienced workers · Working English sufficient for guest service · Health and hygiene clearance for food handling · Availability for in-person practical blocks at a host venue
- Occupations
- Bar attendant / bartender · Beverage server · Banquet & events bar staff · Lodge & resort service
Quality assurance
How assessment
stays honest.
An award is only as credible as the assessment behind it. These are the arrangements we propose, and we expect to align them with your centre-approval requirements.
Qualified assessors
Practical competence is judged only by assessors who are occupationally competent and hold an assessor qualification.
In person, always
No practical competence is assessed online. Online study carries knowledge, procedure and language only.
Written criteria
Every observation is recorded against a criterion-referenced checklist, not the assessor’s general impression.
Internal quality assurance
Assessment decisions are sampled and standardised by internal quality assurers, against a sampling plan for each cohort.
Learner identity
Identity is checked at enrolment and at every assessment. Knowledge assessments are invigilated.
Approved workplaces
Host venues and assignments are approved for practical assessment before any learner is placed there.
Records retained
Evidence portfolios and assessment records are retained and open to external quality assurance.
Appeals and malpractice
Learners can appeal an assessment decision, and suspected malpractice is investigated under a written policy.
These are ASIEA’s proposed quality arrangements. The policies behind them will be written to meet a certification partner’s requirements before the first cohort is assessed.
What we are asking for
Ways to
work with us.
We are open to any of these arrangements, alone or together, and would rather begin with an honest review than a quick approval.
Qualification mapping
Compare our course specifications with your qualifications and tell us where they map, where they fall short and what to change.
Centre approval
Assess ASIEA as a delivery and assessment centre against your criteria, starting with the Phase 01 flagship programmes.
External quality assurance
Sample our assessment decisions, evidence and quality arrangements on the schedule you set.
Learner certification
Certify learners who complete mapped courses, alongside the ASIEA award or in its place.
Credit and progression
Recognise our proposed Level 4 Advanced Certificates for credit or for entry to further study.
The plan
Start small.
Prove it. Scale.
We would rather certify 2 programmes properly than 34 on paper. The pilot starts with the flagships and grows one field at a time.
PHASE 01Seeking a partner
Kampala pilot
The 2 flagship programmes, Bar & Beverage Service Operations and Private Security Operations, with capped cohorts and approved host venues.
PHASE 02Drafted
The full catalogue
The remaining 32 courses, finalised with a certification partner field by field as each one is mapped.
PHASE 03Planned
Across East Africa
Further centres and recognition across the region, built on the evidence of the first cohorts.
Status, plainly
ASIEA is at concept stage. No course is currently certified by an external body. The 2 flagship programmes are fully specified; the other 32 courses are drafted to the same structure and will be finalised with a certification partner. Levels shown are ASIEA’s proposed levels, to be confirmed through mapping.
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skills count.
If your organisation certifies vocational qualifications, we would like to share the full course specifications and assessment design, and to hear what certification would require of us.
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