Category Archives: National Qualifications

CfE and Glow News

The CfE and Glow News e-update provides updates on Curriculum for Excellence and support for practitioners, along with all the latest developments within Glow. Articles in the June issue of CfE and Glow News include:

  • Curriculum for Excellence Management Board
  • Senior phase statement
  • New materials available on NAR
  • STEM Central – Making connections across the curriculum
  • An enterprising approach to developing skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work
  • Woods for learning 
  • Literacy across learning
  • Write at home project
  • National Qualifications – Draft Higher Course Rationales and Summaries published
  • Interesting practice – new materials on Glow •
  • Glow Science
  • Glow Cookbooks
  • Swap competition and Glow Group

Course Rationales and Summaries

The draft Course Rationales are now available to view on the SQA website:

The draft Course Rationales and Summaries outline the proposed content for the new qualifications and their aims and purposes. The Course Rationales identify the skills and knowledge learners will develop. The Course Summaries detail how Courses will be structured. They provide a brief description of each Unit in the Course and what is required to achieve the Course.

The SQA are very keen to hear your feedback on these documents:

You can leave feedback via Have Your Say. At each stage of the qualifications development process we are publishing draft documents in an open and transparent way to show the thinking at each stage and to provide the opportunity to give feedback. We welcome your feedback on the Course Rationales and Summaries by the end of March 2011.

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