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Shailja was born in India and came to UK at the age of 14. On leaving school she qualified as a Registered Psychiatric and General Nurse. She worked in private practice as a Matron and Manager for 12 years. During this period she gained qualifications in assessing and Verification of National Vocational Qualifications. She was employed by Bournemouth and Poole College in 2000, initially as an assessor then the NVQ coordinator. She gained her Certificate in Education as well as becoming an External Verifier for City and Guilds early on and following which she introduced Eportfolios within NVQs and the team went on to achieve Centre of Vocational Excellence award.

On her visits to India, Shailja looked at the quality of care and training with this field. Following discussions with people in the medical and education field, she put forward a proposal to The College to develop IVQ’s (International Vocational Qualifications) in Health Care for the International market. She approached City and Guilds International for this and after exhaustive work the Diploma in Health care was launched by the awarding body with The College being approached to pilot this in India. NVQ’s were also then set up for the International market as they formed a progression from the IVQ.

Shailja was assigned the task of setting up and gaining Centre approval for India as well as working with agents to market the curriculum. Bournemouth and Poole College – India received Centre approval on 13th March 2008.