Assessor Training is for the people who assess controllers, and the refresher is how that competence is kept current. It runs remotely with an instructor, the same as the initial course, so nobody travels for it.
There is no intake date. One assessor who is due can start on their own, and the course runs until they are done.
Why there is no intake
A fixed start date is a scheduling convenience, and it belongs to whoever set it. An organisation with one assessor due in March and another due in September either runs the course twice or makes one of them wait.
Neither is a good outcome. The one who waits drifts out of currency on paper while being entirely current in practice, and the organisation carries that gap for no reason other than the calendar.
So the course starts when the person is ready for it. If that is one person, it runs for one person.
Remote, with an instructor
Remote does not mean unattended here. The refresher runs with an instructor, which is what makes it a course rather than a reading list with a certificate at the end.
What remote removes is the travel and the coordination the travel needs. An assessor taking a refresher is a working controller or a working instructor with a roster around them, and the cost of pulling that person somewhere is usually larger than the course itself.
Three things, priced separately
The initial course, the refresher and the competence assessment are priced on their own, so you book the one the person in front of you actually needs rather than a package built around the busiest case.
Every figure is on the pricing page, and that is deliberate. An organisation planning assessor currency well ahead should be able to work out the cost without asking anyone.
Planning the schedule around it is still worth a conversation. That is a different conversation from finding out the price, and it should not be a condition of getting one.
The initial course works the same way
None of this is specific to the refresher. The initial Assessor course runs remotely with an instructor on the same terms, and so does Practical Instructor Training for OJTI and STDI endorsements, in both its initial and its refresher forms.
The shape is the same each time because the problem is the same each time. These are small populations with renewal dates scattered across the year, made up of people whose day job cannot easily be interrupted. A cohort model fits that badly no matter which endorsement is involved.
Which is also why these courses sit on the same site as everything else Lektor sells. An organisation buying controller training will need instructors and assessors for those controllers eventually, and having to find a second supplier for the second half of that is a self-inflicted problem.
The standard behind it
Lektor Consulting Resources Finland Oy is a (EU) 2015/340 certified training organisation. Whatever moves in how a course is delivered, what an assessor has to be able to do is set by the regulation and by the competent authority.
Delivery is the part Lektor changes. Remote instead of a room, on one person’s schedule instead of a cohort’s. What is asked of an assessor at the end of it was never ours to move.
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