Scottish Credit & Qualifications Framework

The SCQF is Scotland's national qualifications framework. The SCQF supports lifelong learning and can help: 

• people of all ages and circumstances to access appropriate education and training over their lifetime, so as to fulfil their personal, social and economic potential.

• employers. learners and the general public to understand the full range of Scottish qualifications, how qualifications relate to each other and to other forms of learning, and how different types of qualification can contribute to improving the skills of the workforce.

The SCQF helps describe both programmes of learning and qualifications, support the development of progression routes and maximise the opportunities to transfer credit points between qualifications.

The SCQF also helps to illustrate the relationships between Scottish qualifications and those in the rest of the UK, Europe and beyond, which can clarify opportunities for internal progression routes and credit transfer.

For more information on the SCQF, visit www.scqf.org.uk or contact the team on 0845 270 7371.

For information on the SCQF level and credit points for learning programmes which have been credit rated, search the SCQF database at www.scqf.org.uk/the-framework/search-database/ .

A link to the SCQF website can be found here

Some useful information relating to the SCQF can be found below