Section 14 Credit and qualification frameworkI1

Scotland

(1)

The Council is to promote the use by the fundable F1post-16 education bodies of such credit and qualification framework as it may adopt.

(2)

The Council must—

(a)

have regard to any representations about any particular credit and qualification framework, and about credit and qualification frameworks in general, made to it by—

(i)

the Scottish Ministers; F2...

(ii)

the governing body of any fundable F3post-16 education body; or

F4(iii)

any regional strategic body; and

(b)

so far as the Council considers appropriate, have regard to any representations about those matters made to it by any other person.

(3)

For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), a “credit and qualification framework” is a system of evaluation relating to fundable further education and fundable higher education (as a whole) through which programmes of learning and courses of education may be compared and understood in relation to each other.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 14(1) inserted (3.3.2014) by Post-16 Education (Scotland) Act 2013 (asp 12), s. 23(2), Sch. para. 8(12)(a); S.S.I. 2014/21, art. 2, Sch. 1
F2: Word in s. 14(2)(a) omitted (3.3.2014) by virtue of Post-16 Education (Scotland) Act 2013 (asp 12), s. 23(2), Sch. para. 8(12)(b)(i); S.S.I. 2014/21, art. 2, Sch. 1
F3: Words in s. 14(2)(a)(ii) substituted (3.3.2014) by Post-16 Education (Scotland) Act 2013 (asp 12), s. 23(2), Sch. para. 8(12)(b)(ii); S.S.I. 2014/21, art. 2, Sch. 1
F4: S. 14(2)(a)(iii) inserted (3.3.2014) by Post-16 Education (Scotland) Act 2013 (asp 12), s. 23(2), Sch. para. 8(12)(b)(iii); S.S.I. 2014/21, art. 2, Sch. 1

Commencement

I1: S. 14 in force at 3.10.2005 by S.S.I. 2005/419, art. 2(1)