Who we work with - our centres

Our qualifications are delivered by approved centres (schools, colleges, training providers and employers), at home and abroad.

Key facts

• There are 1334 centres in Scotland, 233 in the rest of the UK, and 104 overseas
• 250 new SQA centres approved each year
• 2000 new qualifications approved each year
• Up to 3500 verification activities every year
• 160,000 group award certificates annually
• 90,000 unit certificates annually.

SQA provides:

• centre and qualifications approval
• qualification and systems verification
• pre-verification services
• development activities and standardisation events
• appointee training
• quality assurance sanctions.

HN Next Gen

SQA established a project working with Scotland’s Colleges and other stakeholders to work on the next generation of Higher National Qualifications.

An external steering group chaired by Simon Hewitt, Principal of Dundee and Angus college, oversees this work.

We are piloting the first of the next generation of HNCs and HNDs with colleges.