Qualification Level

An indication of the difficulty of a particular qualification.

National Governments have their own frameworks for qualifications, each with different numbers of levels, for example:

• Scotland has the Scottish Qualifications and Credit Framework, with 12 levels (1 to 12).

• England, Northern Ireland and Wales have the Regulated Qualification Framework with 9 levels (1 to 8, plus Entry level, which consists of Entry 3, Entry 2 and Entry 1), or 11 levels if each Entry level is counted as a separate level.

• There is also a European Qualifications Framework, with 8 levels (1 to 8) which aims to map all the different European countries qualifications into a standard comparable framework.