Scottish Credit Qualifications Framework

SCQF – The Scottish Credit Qualifications Framework is a way of comparing qualifications of different types, by giving each qualification a level and credit points. This helps universities, colleges and employers understand the wide range of qualifications and level that has been studied, and can help the learner make choices about progression.

The project will help raise awareness of the SCQF for practitioners and adult learners in a community setting. Several pilot groups are currently developing processes to apply the SCQF in a formal way, by credit rating and levelling locally devised community based learning programmes.

Other groups are exploring how to use the SCQF levelling in an informal way to support adult learners to recognise where they are on the qualifications framework and encourage progression onto College or Higher Education. Further details about SCQF can be found at www.scqf.org.uk