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UPSKILLING n structure REPs
The new REPs structure, which was outlined in the December issue, has now been launched, bringing with it new progression pathways and up-skilling opportunities from the old categories of registration to the new. Registrar Jean-Ann Marnoch explains more.
The main principles underpinning the new structure are simplicity and flexibility. Apart from the benefits this will bring to members, we want those outside the industry e.g. medical professions, public and media, to understand, trust and respect this sector and a simple structure is needed to achieve this. The new structure also enables REPs members the flexibility to access more disciplines, more easily, so that a wider range of skills can be gained to increase employability and client base.
To aid flexibility and ensure that learning is not repeated, training providers are being encouraged to offer courses that cover the mandatory units (common to all qualifications that give entry at a particular level) as stand-alone pieces of learning as well as the discipline-specific units. For example, where a member already holds a level 3 qualification affording entry to REPs they are not required to repeat the mandatory common units in order to achieve further level 3 REPs entry categories, i.e. if you have already completed the level 3 personal training qualification and wish to take the level 3 exercise referral qualification, you need only undertake the exercise referral discipline-specific units.
We hope this will encourage instructors to broaden their skills by easily transferring from one discipline to another (i.e. you need only achieve the discipline-specific units). This will also be beneficial for those wishing to up-skill from old to new qualifications/REPs categories of registration.
REPs level 2 For new members wishing to join REPs at level 2 under the new structure: l Gym l Exercise to music (ETM) l Aqua l Exercise and physical activity for children
Qualification pathway There are no pre-requisites for level 2 qualifications. To obtain a level 2 fitness instructing qualification, common for all disciplines at level 2, you will need to achieve 4 mandatory common (i.e. compulsory) units plus two optional paired units, which are required for specific pathways (gym, ETM, aqua or exercise and physical activity for children).
These units make up nationally recognised qualifications in L2 gym, ETM, aqua and children that are listed on the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF). All awarding organisations share these units to create qualifications. They are then delivered via the training providers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Scotland and some
“Training providers are being encouraged to offer stand-alone courses covering mandatory units.”
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