SCQF Week is Coming!

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9 January 2023
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As announced earlier this month, SCQF Week 2023 will take place 13-17 March with a theme of Recognising Skills and Qualifications for the Future.

SCQF Week showcases best practice in use of the SCQF across a range of sectors, as well as raising awareness of the SCQFP’s latest projects and developments amongst partners and stakeholders.

SCQF Week will also encourage users to share their own SCQF journey across a range of social media platforms.

How you can support Us

Partners & Stakeholders

We need your help to raise awareness of SCQF Week and our online activities. Please use the suggested social posts to help raise awareness of our toolkit and bite-size workshops.

Individuals

We encourage the sharing of personal achievements whether that be through Youth Awards, Wider Achievement, Community Learning Programmes or the Recognition of Prior Learning process.

Schools, Colleges, Universities, Teaching Staff, and Learning Providers

Can use the week to highlight how you are using the SCQF, your achievements, and the individual success you have had.
We also invite our school and college ambassadors to host ‘awareness sessions‘ for young people and parents in your school/college, online, via social media events, or even through podcasts. Be as creative as your resources allow! (Please get in touch with Sam if you require any additional resources for these events).

SCQF Inclusive Recruiters and Employers

Can use the week to highlight how you are using the SCQF in recruitment and staff development or perhaps your in-house training is credit rated on the SCQF and you’d like to shout about it.

SCQF Credit Rating Bodies

If you’re an approved SCQF Credit Rating body we’d like you to share how this benefits and adds value to your training programmes.

Remember to tag @SCQFPartnership and use hashtags #SCQFWeek23 #RecognisingSkills

Support SCQF Week: Access the Toolkit

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SCQF Week Workshops/Live Sessions

SCQF Week will have a specific focus with a relevant bite-size workshop for each day of the week, as well as 2x hour-long sessions for schools. All sessions are free to join

  • MON 13 MARCH FOCUS: VETERANS AND EX-MILITARY PERSONNEL
  • TUES 14 MARCH FOCUS: EMPLOYERS AND SCQF INCLUSIVE RECRUITERS
  • WED 15 MARCH FOCUS: RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING
  • THURS 16 MARCH FOCUS: SCHOOL AND COLLEGE AMBASSADORS
  • FRI 17 MARCH FOCUS: SCQF CREDIT RATING AND CREDIT RATING BODIES

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Glossary Term

Authority

Appears at Level 12 only where it is used in the phrase ‘demonstrate substantial authority’, reflecting a recognised high level and depth of expertise/expert knowledge and understanding, along with confidence. It does not mean ‘exercise authority over staff and resources’ etc, as that could clearly apply at earlier levels.

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Exercise

Used in connection with management and/or supervisory responsibility, denotes a requirement of a formal, substantive role.

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Directive

Applied to ‘supervision’, signifies a task or activity that is guided.

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Graphical Data

Encompasses maps, plans, diagrams, tables and graphs.

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Synthesis

Combine discrete elements into a coherent whole.

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Analysis

Examine in detail with a view to explanation and interpretation.

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Present

Set out, put forward, deliver information using a variety of mediums as appropriate.

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Hypothetical

Supposed, assumed for the sake of argument.

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Straightforward

Clear and uncomplicated activity, but not as demanding or systematic and therefore not as advanced as ‘routine’.

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Creativity

Often used in combination with ‘originality’. There is overlap in definition, but the defining characteristic of creativity appears to be imagination.

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Originality

Often used in combination with ‘creativity’. There is overlap in definition, but the defining characteristic of originality appears to be independence.

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Professional

Used throughout as an adjective and applied to terms including level, skills, techniques, practices, contexts, and issues where it bears broad interpretation as ‘behaving appropriately/doing things properly and well and to notions of accepted, (including externally) prescribed standards’, as well as narrow, relating to a specific occupation designated as a profession. In this latter sense, the term applies in all contexts including academic study, eg footnoting properly.

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Unfamiliar

New territory for an activity.

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Routine

Used as an adjective throughout and applied to terms including skills, tasks, elements, practices, contexts, methods and problems where it describes activity that is standard, usual, unvarying, customary, common.

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Everyday

Slightly more advanced and beyond personal but a known experience/activity encountered/applied regularly - less advanced than ‘familiar’.

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Familiar

Often encountered or experienced; common; something one has a good knowledge of - more advanced than ‘personal’ and ‘everyday’, not as advanced as ‘routine’.

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Personal

An experience relating only or primarily to the person – one would expect to start here then widen out into the rest of the world, so not as advanced as ‘familiar’.

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Critical

Fully informed, capable of supporting in-depth analysis and assessment.

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Discerning

Using judgement to recognise differences but not fully equipped/informed to analyse and discuss them in depth, so less advanced than critical.

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Awareness

Consciousness, including a background consciousness. Can be a starting point for further exploration.

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Appreciation

A sense, perception, a hold, fix or grasp of one or more of the various aspects of a subject/discipline/sector.

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Understanding

A thorough and firm grasp of a subject/discipline/sector or an element or elements of it, derived from education/study, experience and reasoning in appropriate combination. Can be defined as ‘know why’, as opposed to ‘know that’. More holistic knowledge of processes and contexts, so more advanced than appreciation and knowledge.

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Simple

Undemanding activity not necessarily part of a formal structure - not as advanced as ‘basic’.

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Knowledge

Facts, ideas, theories and concepts in a subject/discipline/sector acquired through experience and/or education – a surer grasp than appreciation so more advanced.

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Basic

Activity is early stepping stone on a structure or framework that can be built upon – more advanced than ‘simple’.