Higher Education Institution

Students in HE institutions may need guidance in understanding and using the Framework when:

• they are looking to transfer to another faculty;
• when they are considering future career development;
• when they are applying to have credit given for their prior learning.

HEI staff can access further information about SCQF Level Descriptors and SCQF Credit Points which will help explain these specific features of the Framework.

The Mapping, Tracking and Bridging Website? is your information correct?

As an interim measure, during September 2007 to March 2008 the SCQF Partnership updated the Mapping Tracking and Bridging Site. Scottish universities and colleges are encouraged to ensure that information on the mapping database, showing the formal articulation routes from HN Qualifications to Degrees across Scotland, is kept up to date.

Verification that the framework for qualifications of HEIs in Scotland is compatible with the European Higher Education Area December 2006

A working group was convened in 2006 by QAA Scotland and Universities Scotland to verify, against criteria stipulated in the 'Bologna Process' in higher education, that the framework for qualifications of higher education institutions in Scotland is compatible with the framework for the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The Scottish working group consisted of experts from the sector, students and international representatives, and progressed the verification process through SACCA under the auspices of the QAA Scotland Committee. The final report on the verification process was approved by the QAA Scotland Committee, and subsequently submitted to the Bologna working group on qualifications frameworks. It is hoped that the Scottish verification report can inform the verification procedures in the remainder of the countries signed up to the Bologna process, each nation having a target date of 2010 to verify that their national frameworks are compatible with the framework for the EHEA.