Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework

Its members are the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education; College Development Network; the Scottish Qualifications Authority; and Universities Scotland.

Credit values may differ for medical, veterinary and dental science degrees and certain undergraduate and postgraduate combined study (integrated masters).

Level 3 was equivalent to Years 3 and 4 at a Scottish University, and generally these credits lead to a Special or Honours Degree.

Education and training providers in Scotland then agreed to create a common framework for all qualifications, both current and historical.

This led to the development of a 12-level framework with courses, units, modules and clusters being placed at a specific level with a credit weighting.