SQA recently published guidance for session 2020/21 relating to the assessment of vocational qualifications during the current pandemic. That page includes a link to general guidance for centres. The guidance provides detailed information for teachers, lecturers and trainers about how best to carry out assessment during the current conditions. Some subjects, because of their very practical nature, will be providing additional guidance relating to specific units that can’t follow this general advice. Subjects such as Construction, Dance and Sport present…

I’m pleased to let you know that the Professional Development Award in Data Science at SCQF Levels 7, 8 and 9 is now validated. The validation event in June placed some conditions on the proposed awards and we’ve been working on those conditions over the summer. The convener of the panel has now lifted the conditions. It’s taken us longer than normal to do this. We hoped to have the award available to centres by 1 September but it’s going…

The team would like to welcome you back for session 2020/21. We’ve been busy during the summer with a number of developments. A new Professional Development Award in Cyber Resilience was recently made available to centres. This suite of awards is available at SCQF Levels 7, 8 and 9. The finalisation of this qualification brings to an end a period of rapid development of cyber security qualifications that began in 2015 when NPA Cyber Security was introduced. There are now…