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In this section
NQGA Toolkit
Introduction and overview
- Introduction
- Types of National Certificate and NPA developments
- Overview of the development or revision process for a National Certificate and NPA
- Design principles for National Certificates and National Progression Awards
Guidance for qualification design teams
Group Award proposal
- Identifying potential qualifications for development
- Establish the need for the qualification by consulting stakeholders
- Identify potential partner colleges
- Complete and submit development proposal form (P1)
Qualification design
- Set up the Qualification Design Team
- Evaluate stakeholder responses
- Carry out further market research as appropriate
- Develop the rationale and aims of the Group Award
- Complete and submit development proposal form (P2)
Qualification development
Plan the work of the Qualification Design Team
Guidance on validating a Group Award
- Produce a validation proposal document for the Group Award
- Organising the validation meeting
- Appointing the Validation Panel
- Composition of the Validation Panel
- Roles of the members
- Training
Appoint a Validation Panel for the Group Award
- Hold a validation meeting for the Group Award
- Before the meeting
- Format of the meeting
- First private meeting
- First meeting with the Qualification Design Team
- Second private meeting - reaching a decision
- The second/final meeting with the Qualification Design Team
- The validation report
- Validation conditions
- Appeals against validation decisions
- The final validation proposal document
- The Arrangements document
Implementing and maintaining the qualification
- Inclusion on SQA's system
- SQA coding of qualification and all new Units and informing SAAS
- Gain centre or SQA approval
- Launch the Group Award
- Maintenance of the Group Award
- Maintenance of NQ Unit Catalogue
Appendix 1: SQA qualifications and the SCQF
Appendix 2: SQA’s quality elements
Glossary
College Tools
College Toolkit (PDF version) (452 KB)
Contact Information
- Candidate and General Enquiries
- 0845 279 1000
- Centre Enquiries
- 0303 333 0330
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