Credit & Qualifications – Resources

Top tips on credit-based units and qualifications

A series of Top Tip guides are currently being produced and distributed. Based on practical experience, they offer easy-to-understand guidance on a wide range of credit-related issues. Sign up for our Top Tips

• Top Tips 1 – Getting Ready
• Top Tips 2 – Unit Title
• Top Tips 3 – Writing learning outcomes
• Top Tips 4 – Writing assessment-criteria
• Top Tips 5 – Assigning a level to a unit
• Top Tips 6 – Assigning credit value to a unit
• Top Tips 7 – Developing rules of combination (part 1)
• Top Tips 8 – Developing rules of combination (part 2)
• Top Tips 9 – Assessment in the QCF
• Top Tips 10 – Grading within the QCF

Information and links to resources you may find helpful:

www.ypla.gov.uk for the Learning and Skills Council

www.ofqual.gov.uk for Ofqual – all information on the regulations of qualifications

www.berr.gov.uk for the government department of Business, Innovation and Skills

www.education.gov.uk for the department of Education

register.ofqual.gov.uk/Unit to search the national register of regulated qualifications for nationally accredited units and qualifications in the UK and list of all awarding bodies

www.ukces.org.uk for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills

www.sscalliance.org for the Sector Skills Alliance

www.ukstandards.org.uk for the directory of all National Occupational Standards

www.rewardinglearning.org.uk for the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment in Northern Ireland

wales.gov.uk/topics/educationandskills/publications/guidance/approvalofqualifications/?lang=en for accreditation of Qualifications in Wales

www.sqa.org.uk for accreditation of Qualifications in Scotland

www.awarding.org.uk/public/home for the professional association of awarding organisations otherwise known as the Federation of Awarding Bodies

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