Regulatory Activity 2022-23
SQA Accreditation’s regulatory function includes the approval of awarding bodies and carrying out awarding body audits and provider monitoring visits.
SQA Accreditation’s quality assurance processes are based on a range of measures, and compliance was assessed against the Regulatory Principles (2021) and the associated Regulatory Principles Directives.
Awarding Bodies
35 awarding bodies approved by SQA Accreditation (at the end of 2022-23)
The number of SQA Accreditation approved awarding bodies remained the same throughout the finanical year — although two prospective awarding bodies came forward seeking approval. The full list of approved awarding bodies can be found here.
Issues and Recommendations
During 2022-23, audit and provider monitoring activity identified that the greatest number of Issues and Recommendations were recorded against:
- Principle 9: The awarding body and its providers must maintain accurate documents, records and data.
- Principle 12: The awarding body and its providers must ensure that they have the necessary arrangements and resources required to manage and administer qualification delivery and assessment.
- Principle 13: The awarding body and its providers must ensure that they have systems and processes which ensure the effective quality assurance of accredited qualifications.
- Principle 16: The awarding body and its providers must have open and transparent systems, policies and procedures to manage complaints.
Those principles that have the greatest number of Issues and Recommendations raised during audit or PMV activity are key areas for SQA Accreditation, approved awarding bodies and providers to learn from and consider in future activity.