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Inspiring - Motivating - Enabling

  • SQA Academy Vision

    SQA Academy provides a progressive, dynamic and interactive learning environment that motivates, inspires and enables relevant high quality continuous professional development.Desktop showing education and learning word cloud

  • Highlighted courses and other resources

    Senior Appointees

    Developing your people skills

    GDPR Safe Lock imageThe first three of our new online courses for senior appointees are now available.

    Click on the links below to access them:

    Clear and Confident Writing course

    Clear and Confident WritingGet the skills, knowledge and confidence to write clearly and confidently — with your audience always front of mind.

    • Plain English
    • Know your Audience
    • Tone of Voice
    • Editing and Proofreading
    Clear and Confident Writing

    Digital Learning Guides

    Male and female sitting at table with multiple devicesA suite of interactive training materials to help people get online and carry out everyday digital activities such as searching the internet, using social media, booking tickets and appointments, shopping and more…

    Corporate Parenting

    Corporate Parenting imageSQA is a National Corporate Parent under the Children and Young Person (Scotland) Act 2014, giving it a number of responsibilities to young people who experience the care system. All SQA staff should be aware of these responsibilities.  Find out more below.

  • Finding courses

    Selected courses currently running are highlighted below followed by a full list of all SQA Academy courses in the different categories. Courses can be searched for using titles or keywords.

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