Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005

14 Credit and qualification framework S

(1) The Council is to promote the use by the fundable [F1 post-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 [F3 post-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.

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 Information

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