Regulatory Activity 2024-25

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

In 2024–25 two new awarding bodies were approved. Two existing awarding bodies surrendered their approval status. The full list of approved awarding bodies can be found here.

Issues and Recommendations

During 2023-24, audit and provider monitoring activity identified that the greatest number of Issues and Recommendations were recorded against:

• Principle 7: The awarding body must have an effective approach for communicating with its staff, stakeholders and SQA Accreditation.
• Principle 9: The awarding body and its providers must maintain accurate documents, records and data.
• 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.

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.