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Credit and unitisation framework
Framework for achievement
On 29 November the then Secretary of State Charles Clarke announced the launch of a QCA-led consultation on a new framework for qualifications, the Framework for achievement, (FfA) which between 2006 and 2010 is planned to replace the current national qualifications framework (NQF). Ministers see this as a critical step in the creation of a 14-90 lifelong achievement framework (you can also view LSDA's response the consultation).
Within the new framework all qualifications will be unit and credit based. It incorporates approaches developed within the learning and skills sector over the passed decade. LSDA has pioneered work on credit in the UK for more than a decade. This approach to unitisation and credit is being incorporated into the frameworks proposed in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and HE.
14-19 Qualifications
LSDA sees the unit and credit based approach as also crucial to the development of 14-19 qualifications, a diploma system and qualifications for young people in employment. QCA, Chief Executive Ken Boston, in a speech at the APL conference in May 2005, described how the FfA and 14-19 qualifications are likely to evolve. View 
full speech.
The Framework for achievement is central to the Government's Skills Strategy. See Skills Strategy White Paper March 2005.
For more information on the consultation and next steps go to first link below.
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