Expertise and Advisory Services
Dr Tony Degazon provides senior advisory and technical support across TVET reform, workforce development, qualifications systems, occupational standards, assessment, employability, quality assurance, and skills transformation.
His work supports governments, regulators, awarding organisations, employers, schools, colleges, universities, and training providers seeking practical solutions to education, skills, and workforce capability challenges.
Awarding Organisation Readiness and Regulatory Diagnostics
Supporting organisations to assess their structural and operational readiness to function as — or transition toward — independent awarding bodies and certification organisations.
- Governance and operating model reviews
- Quality assurance framework diagnostics
- Awarding lifecycle analysis
- Regulatory readiness and compliance mapping
- Organisational capability and capacity assessment
- Roadmaps for awarding body development and improvement
Recent engagements have included awarding organisation readiness reviews, governance diagnostics, regulatory compliance assessments, and capability development programmes for organisations seeking to establish or strengthen certification and awarding functions.
Qualification and Assessment Development
Design and development of vocational and professional qualifications, units, assessment strategies, test specifications, item banks, practical assessments, and quality assurance processes.
- Qualification design and development
- Unit and learning outcome writing
- Assessment strategy and test specification design
- MCQ, short-answer, portfolio, and practical assessment development
- Validity, reliability, fairness, and standardisation review
- Assessment quality assurance and moderation systems
Experience includes the design and quality assurance of large-scale assessment systems, certification programmes, technical qualifications, and competency-based assessment frameworks across strategic industry sectors including energy, aviation, construction, health and safety, IT, hospitality, retail, and public-sector workforce development.
Occupational Standards and Skills Frameworks
Development of occupational standards, skills frameworks, competency maps, and workforce capability models through structured industry consultation and alignment to qualifications frameworks.
- Occupational standards development
- Competency framework and skills map design
- Industry consultation and validation workshops
- Benchmarking against international standards and qualifications
- Graduate competency and future skills frameworks
- Workforce capability models for organisations and sectors
Experience includes occupational standards development, graduate competency frameworks, future skills models, and workforce capability frameworks implemented across education systems, industry sectors, and government-led initiatives.
TVET Quality Assurance and Institutional Review
Design and application of quality assurance systems for TVET institutions, training providers, awarding bodies, schools, colleges, and workforce development programmes.
- Internal and external quality assurance frameworks
- Institutional review and inspection criteria
- Centre approval and monitoring systems
- Assessor, internal verifier, and quality manager development
- Audit tools, self-assessment, and improvement planning
- Quality assurance policies, procedures, and operating manuals
Experience includes quality assurance framework design, inspection criteria development, institutional review, assessor and verifier development, and organisational capability building for education and training providers.
Employability and Workforce Development
Designing employability programmes, skills bridging solutions, apprenticeships, and workforce development initiatives that connect education and training with labour market needs.
- Employability and work-readiness frameworks
- Apprenticeship mapping and programme design
- Employer engagement and industry partnership models
- Skills bridging into work
- Migrant worker skills verification
- Workforce transition and labour market participation programmes
Experience includes employability frameworks, apprenticeship pathways, work-readiness programmes, employer engagement strategies, and workforce transition initiatives supporting learners, jobseekers, and workers across multiple sectors.
Training Centre Development and K–12 Employability Integration
Establishing and strengthening vocational training centres, school-based skills pathways, and employability programmes that connect education with the world of work.
- Training centre setup and operational readiness
- Programme design for schools, colleges, and training providers
- Centre quality assurance and approval systems
- Trainer and assessor development
- School-to-work transition models
- K–12 employability and future skills integration
This includes support for vocational centre development, school employability integration, apprenticeship pathways, vocational qualifications, and workforce-readiness programmes aligned to industry needs.
Education Reform and Capacity Building
Senior advisory support for government-led education reform, institutional development, curriculum modernisation, and large-scale teacher, trainer, and leadership capacity building.
- TVET policy and national skills strategy
- Institutional restructuring and operating model design
- Curriculum reform and competency-based education
- Teacher and trainer professional development
- Leadership and management capacity building
- Implementation planning and change management
Advisory experience includes national skills strategies, institutional reform programmes, curriculum modernisation, teacher development initiatives, quality assurance reform, and capacity building for education systems across the Middle East and North Africa.
Future Skills and AI Readiness
Supporting governments, regulators, schools, colleges, universities, and training providers to understand the implications of artificial intelligence, automation, and emerging technologies for workforce capability, curriculum, assessment, and institutional strategy.
- AI readiness reviews for education and training systems
- Future skills frameworks and curriculum alignment
- Assessment implications of AI and digital technologies
- Digital capability and workforce transformation planning
- Skills intelligence and labour market alignment
- Strategic advisory on technology-enabled education reform
This area connects Dr Degazon’s experience in TVET reform, qualifications systems, digital assessment, workforce development, and future skills to the emerging challenges created by AI and technology-driven labour market change.
Workforce Capability Frameworks
Design and implementation of workforce capability frameworks that define the knowledge, skills, behaviours, and future capabilities required for organisational, sector, and national performance.
- Workforce capability model design
- Role families and competency architecture
- Skills gap analysis and workforce planning
- Capability assessment and maturity models
- Learning pathways and development roadmaps
- Alignment with organisational strategy and labour market needs
These frameworks help organisations move from broad skills ambitions to practical capability models, development pathways, and measurable workforce improvement plans.
Skills Strategy and Economic Development
Advising governments, institutions, and sector bodies on skills strategy, labour market alignment, workforce planning, and economic development through targeted skills investment.
- National and sector skills strategy
- Labour market alignment and skills intelligence
- Industry engagement and governance models
- Economic development through skills investment
- Public-private partnership models for skills reform
- Strategic roadmaps for workforce transformation
This work supports policy makers, regulators, employers, and education providers in building practical skills systems that respond to economic priorities, labour market demand, and future workforce requirements.
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