Suite purpose
This suite of qualifications is designed for learners who are working in the dairy industry. They provide advantage over the use of proficiency qualifications in food industry skills in that they develop dairy specific skills and specialist dairy subject knowledge which support career progression in dairy industry roles. The qualifications are composed of large numbers of units of assessment which provide considerable choice for learners to select the relevant units to meet development and achievement needs. The broad choice of units accommodate a very wide selection of dairy industry roles such as those in milk processing, cheese making, milk powder production, packaging and wrapping, dairy retail and service. These roles are relevant across the many different types of dairy businesses; from artisan to automated plants.