Policies for SQA centres

SQA’s Awarding Body Code of Practice outlines how we ensure that:

SQA’s policies are essential in ensuring public confidence by supporting how we safeguard the integrity of our qualifications and assessment standards.

Equality of Access

The Equality of Access to SQA Qualifications policy outlines the organisation’s commitment to promoting and facilitating access to our qualifications. This policy is there to ensure that our qualifications and assessments are not discriminatory. In practice, we:

Equality of access to SQA qualifications

Further information on how SQA considers equality in its qualifications.

Language of Assessment policies

The Language of Assessment and Certification policies set out which language should be used to assess different types of qualifications and explain the reasons for this. They do not refer to the assessment of languages, for example modern languages.

There are separate Language of Assessment policies for the following types of qualifications:

Our regulated and self-regulated policies have also been provided in Gaelic.