Vocational and Trade Schools Editing and Proofreading Services

Vocational training is bought on a promise about employment, by students who are frequently taking on debt and giving up income to attend. That promise is made in a prospectus, and the gap between what a qualification is and what a student believes it will do for them is the sector's persistent problem. A student completing a course and discovering that they still cannot work unsupervised, that employers require a further card or licence nobody mentioned, or that the entry-level jobs in their area were filled last year, has been failed by a document rather than by the teaching.

We edit what vocational colleges, trade schools and apprenticeship providers produce — course and programme information for prospective students, employment outcome and destination data, qualification and licence explanations, entry requirement and prior learning information, apprenticeship and employer partnership documentation, work placement agreements and expectations, practical assessment criteria and portfolio requirements, health and safety and site induction material, tool and equipment requirement lists with costs, student handbooks and attendance expectations, employer engagement and recruitment material, funding, fees and loan information, and progression and further qualification pathways. Our editors check that what a qualification allows a holder to do is stated plainly.

What the qualification actually licenses is the sentence that should appear on every course page and rarely does. Trades differ enormously in this: some qualifications permit independent work immediately, some require a period of supervised experience before registration, some are one component of a licence issued by a separate body, and some are respected by employers while conferring no formal entitlement at all. We write these so the course page states what the holder can do on completion, what they cannot do until something else happens, what that something else is, how long it typically takes and what it costs; so employment outcome figures are given with their basis — how many completed, how many were surveyed, how many were working in the trade rather than in any job, at what point after completion; and so the local labour market position is described honestly, since a national shortage figure is not evidence that a job exists within travelling distance. Providers who publish this lose enquiries from people who were never going to complete and gain students who arrive knowing what they are doing.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including student records, employer agreements and outcome data. We are editors rather than trainers, assessors or licensing advisers, and we offer no view on qualification requirements, licensing, apprenticeship rules or funding eligibility. What we can do is make the claims traceable and the student-facing material honest.