Part 1Further and higher education etc.

The Council: functions

14Credit and qualification framework

1

The Council is to promote the use by the fundable 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; or

ii

the governing body of any fundable 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.