Volunteering offers people the chance to develop new skills, explore new experience and enrich their practical experience.
All this learning can be accredited, to assist the student in recognising their learning and to allow them to demonstrate that they have fully participated in their volunteering experience.
The Learning by Volunteering Unit Qualification:
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These new SQA Awards are about learning through volunteering. They have been designed in consultation with Volunteer Development Scotland and members of the Volunteer Centres network. The Awards seek to give individuals the opportunity of gaining a Scottish qualification which recognises their contribution to volunteering and the skills they gain as a result of being involved in activities additional to their formal learning. They link naturally to the resources created as part of the Learning by Volunteering Project and support the development of volunteering strategies in colleges and schools across Scotland. The Awards enable candidates to apply and develop their skills and knowledge in a volunteering capacity. They will learn about the context of volunteering; plan a volunteering placement; review and reflect on their own skills during and after their volunteering experience; review the impact of their experience; and undertake an investigation of a particular aspect of volunteering, relating this to possible future volunteering activity. The Awards are suitable for a range of people. These could be school and college learners, people wishing to develop and improve their employability skills in preparation for seeking work, or people seeking to improve other skills and learn through volunteering. School and college students completing the Awards are likely to be undertaking some type of volunteering as part of their overall learning experience. It is envisaged that candidates successfully completing these Awards will be able to progress to further study or volunteering work. Participation in the Awards will link naturally to the development of employability skills, transferable skills, active citizenship and the development of the skills and attributes of the 4 capacities of Curriculum for Excellence, so adding value to what colleges and other SQA Centres already deliver. Details of the awards will shortly be available on the SQA website |
Learning by Volunteering SCQF Unit Description
Learning by Volunteering Assessment Log