e-skills UK in Scotland

Standards, frameworks and qualifications

As the Sector Skills Council for Business and Information Technology, we are responsible for articulating and maintaining the National Occupational Standards (NOS) and the Qualifications Structures (such as SVQs and Apprenticeships) for IT and Telecoms.

The e-skills NOS detail the range of discrete areas of competence needed to describe the diverse job roles in the IT and Telecoms industries, and IT professional jobs in other sectors. The e-skills NOS also include the discrete areas of competence needed by IT users in all sectors of industry.

NB - Please be aware that the new NOS for IT Users have now been approved for use with effect from March 2009 and that the new ITQ (SVQ for IT Users) should be widely available from August 2009 onwards.

For more info, click on the links below:

• Standards and SVQ - IT Professionals
• Standards and SVQ - Telecoms
• Standards and SVQ - IT Users (ie ITQ)
• Modern Apprenticeships - ICT and IT Users

In addition, if you are involved in the policy, regulation, development, funding and delivery of qualifications and learning, the following will be of interest:

• e-skills UK Sector Qualification and Learning Strategy
• Skills Frameworks

Last modified: 27 May 2009