University Partners

Plymouth Marjon University, UK

Plymouth Marjon University sits on a green and spacious campus, with world-class facilities in a spectacular part of the world. But the thing that most makes us stand out is our students. They are the inspiration and motivation for all we do.

Here, students build strong working relationships with a network of supporters, from their personal development tutors to their lecturers to the student union, and therefore achieve more than they ever thought possible. They work side-by-side with us to improve and develop the university to make their experience as rich and rewarding as possible.

All our programmes involve work placements of some sort, and all students are trained in critical graduate-level skills such as presenting with impact, applying for jobs, managing interviews and influencing others. We work very closely with key employers on all programmes, linking our students to a network of contacts to help them in their future careers.

Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), UK

Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) is the executive public body of Scottish government responsible for accrediting educational awards and is accredited by the UK government to offer educational qualifications. Being one of the four partner national organizations in the Curriculum for Excellence, SQA’s designs and develops new qualifications and assessments, validates qualifications, and reviews them to ensure they are up to date. It has created the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF).

The SCQF helps describe both programmes of learning and qualifications, support the development of progression routes and maximize the opportunities to transfer credit points between qualifications to ensure that a learner does not have to repeat any learning they have already undertaken. The SCQF also helps to illustrate the relationships between Scottish qualifications and those in the rest of the UK, Europe and beyond, which can clarify opportunities for international progression routes and credit transfer.