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Qualifications can cross boundaries - a rough guide to comparing qualifications in the UK and Ireland, July 2011

Qualifications can cross boundaries - a rough guide to comparing qualifications in the UK and Ireland, July 2011
This leaflet is a ready reckoner for employers, learners and other interested parties.

These pages contain information about the different types of qualifications which are available in Wales, and the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification.

These include qualifications which may be taken by school pupils, further education students, people who may be in the workplace, community settings, prisons, residential settings or elsewhere.

As well as information about the qualifications types, these pages also include additional information about such things as:

  • qualifications which are available through the medium of Welsh or bilingually
  • access to qualifications
  • qualifications which are approved for use by various learners
  • e-assessment
  • how qualifications compare and can be used in different UK nations
  • qualifications frameworks.

The Regulation of Qualifications pages provide information about the way in which the Welsh Government regulates qualifications. Regulation involves such things as making sure that the organisations who offer qualifications are suitably resourced to do so; that the qualifications themselves are fit for purpose and that standards are maintained over time.

The processes for regulating awarding organisations and their qualifications have been changed by the Welsh Government to mirror changes that have been implemented by our fellow regulators in England (Ofqual) and Northern Ireland (CCEA).

More information on this can be found in the relevant sections available on the left hand side.