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An oscar for PNE

A local business from Gateshead has launched an innovative online system set to save other businesses thousands of pounds.

The oscar system has been designed by PNE Development, part of the social enterprise PNE Group, and aimed at organisations who provide vocational training. An e-portfolio system, oscar streamlines the assessment process and reduces the associated costs. This has advantages for both learners and training organisations, and PNE has ambitious plans in place to roll out the system to organisations in the region, and across the UK.

After delivering a record number of qualifications themselves last year, the team at PNE has identified a need to modernise the qualification assessment process. oscar utilises emerging technology that enhances the learning experience while allowing organisations to increase the number of learners they can support without a corresponding increase in costs. The result is a completely new e-portfolio system that promises to ‘shake up’ the UK marketplace and allow a greater number of businesses with assessment needs to adopt a modern, web-based solution.

Tracey Moore of PNE Development said, ’As a training business ourselves, we realise that more time needs to be spent on delivering quality training and assessment to learners and less time on unwieldy and unnecessary administration. oscar represents an opportunity for businesses to reduce their costs and improve the learner experience at the same time. oscar has been designed by assessors like myself so I am confident that others in a training or assessment role will see the benefits’.

Tracey believes it will prove to be an easy-to-use, streamlined and highly intuitive addition to a competitive market.

’When we looked around for an e-portfolio system ourselves, we found the available systems to be awkward to use and too prescriptive. We wanted something straightforward that would enable us to spend more time working with our learners.’

Those interested in viewing a live demonstration of the oscar system should contact PNE Development at enquiries@oscaronline.org or call 0191 438 7999.

For further information and interviews please contact Shaun Nichols, PNE Group, on 0191 438 7999 or email shaun.nichols@pne.org

About PNE Development

PNE Development specialises in providing learning and development opportunities to improve the performance of people and organisations. In addition, we provide training providers with the tools to reduce their costs and deliver training more efficiently and effectively. www.pne-development.org

PNE Development is part of the PNE Group, a social enterprise based in Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead, specialising in small business development, economic regeneration and capacity building programmes for the voluntary and community sector, both in the UK and internationally. www.pne.org

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Paul Lancaster .

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