SCQF Resources

Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework Partnership Resources, Achievement Counts Flyer a guide to credits and qualifications for school-age learners, Realising your Potential Flyer, a guide to the SCQF for lifelong learners, Credit Where Credits Due Flyer, a guide to credits and qualifications for parents and carers, Old V New Diagram, this guide shows how current and old qualifications relate to one another in terms of their SCQF level. This table can be used by anybody with a need to understand National Qualifications (normally awarded at school), for example, employers when recruiting

Wider access and progression among full-time students

By 2010 the UK government intends to widen access and provide experience of higher education to half of those aged up to 30. Unlike many institutions, University of Paisley (UP) has exceeded its individual target on access. It has done this by providing entry routes for students with ‘non-traditional’ qualifications. It is feared that low entry qualifications will adversely influence performance and progression statistics as wider access is pursued. Drawing on a student-attrition theory, performance and progression are investigated using data for students enrolling at UP for the first time in 2000. At UP non-traditional entry coincided with the enrolment of many students over 21. The relationships between age and performance and between age and progression are nonlinear and involve interactions with gender. Also, there are interactions between entry qualification and field of study. These relationships and interactions could complicate the important task of translating wider access into academic success