Self Assessment

SQA Accreditation, like other regulators across the UK, are introducing self assessment into the quality assurance function. Self assessment will reduce the burden on both SQA Accreditation auditors and on each approved awarding body.; Self assessment will limit the requirement for annual audit visits from SQA Accreditation and will give awarding bodies, which already work well, the opportunity to formally assess their own systems, procedures and come up with their own ideas for improvement and for ways to best meet the set Awarding Body Criteria (2007).

SQA Accreditation will, over the next few years, risk rate all of its approved awarding bodies and make informed decisions as to which awarding bodies are in a good position to self assess without also being audited. SQA Accreditation will categorise each awarding body which will determine the quality assurance role to be carried out:

• Self assessment
• Scoped audit
• Full audit

More information about SQA Accreditation's risk rating policy will appear on the website shortly.

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