Administration and IT
Administration and IT develops candidates' administrative, organisational and IT skills. Candidates develop an understanding of administration in the workplace and the IT skills required for the role.
01-MAY-2024
Based on feedback from the teaching profession, and as part of our ongoing review and maintenance of National Courses, we’re clarifying and streamlining the assessment standards in National 3 and National 4 Administration and IT units.
We’re updating the course specifications and unit specifications to make it clear that learners do not need to demonstrate full accuracy to meet the outcomes and assessment standards for each unit.
These changes should help to ease learner workload and avoid the need for learners to continually show the same skills (without added breadth or context) across the units.
We’re updating the course and unit support notes and unit assessment support packs to reflect these changes.
All updated documents will be available by the end of August 2024. These documents will be valid for session 2024-25 onwards.
View our online news article – update on National Courses for session 2024-25 onwards (13 March 2024).
29-APR-2024
We’ve published electronic files for learners to use in the National 5 Administration and IT exam on Wednesday 1 May. The files are available on the SQA Secure website. Once downloaded, they must be stored securely and treated as confidential until the exam takes place.
We’ve contacted SQA co-ordinators in schools delivering National 5 Administration and IT and provided them with information about downloading the files, details of the security measures which must be followed, and setting up the files on the day of the exam.
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