Qualification Development Toolkit for centres
Introduction
- SQA's qualification development cycle
- Types of developments
- Devolved Authority and auditing
- Deciding whether to develop or revise a qualification
Establishing the need
- Consulting stakeholders
- National Occupational Standards (NOS)
- Identify potential partner colleges
- Notifying SQA of proposals
Develop
Develop: Phase 1 - establishing content, structure and support materials
- Establishing a Qualification Design Team (QDT)
- QDT deliverables
- Considering the content of the qualification structure
- Core Skills
Develop: Phase 2 - developing new/revised Units for a Group Award
Develop: Phase 3 - developing Assessment Support Packs (ASPs)
Develop: Phase 4 - developing the Group Award specification
Validate
- Validation hosts
- Composition and role of the Validation Panel
- Role of validation panel members
- Preparing for validation
- Validation meeting and outcomes
- Finalisation of the Group Award specification
Operationalise
- Inclusion on SQA's Awards Processing System (APS)
- Development Programme Group (DPG) sign off
- The Approval Process
- Informing the Students Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS)
- Summary flow chart for colleges without devolved authority
Maintain
- Managing Maintenance: roles and responsibilities
- Types of changes to an existing qualification structure
- Requesting changes to an existing Unit/Group Award
- Centre notification of changes
Review
- Planning a review
- Carrying out a Group Award review
- Evaluating Group Award review information
- Progressing Group Award review outcomes
- Annual portfolio clear up - withdrawal of no uptake National and Higher National Units not in any Group Award
Downloads
The table below brings together all the Toolkit documents
Downloadable forms, tools and guidance documents
Related Information
- Guide to Scottish Qualifications (164 KB)
Contact Information
- Candidate Enquiries
- 0345 279 1000
- Centre Enquiries
- 0303 333 0330