The Northern Ireland Credit Accumulation and Transfer System (NICATS) is a credit framework which is a set of principles and guidelines for valuing, describing, measuring and recognising all learning.

This includes learning in traditional settings such as schools, colleges and universities as well as learning within the community and in the workplace.

Find out about how NICATS is involved in setting credit equivalences for units and qualifications, credit-based funding, Access to HE modules and providing guidance to HE.

 

'Designing Learning Programmes: A Credit Based Approach' is a practical guide to the development of credit-based curricula and can be ordered here.

 

 

Date for your diary - NICATS Launch Implementation Phase 1 Report on 10 December 2002 in The City Hall Belfast (granted by kind permission of Belfast City Council). Click here for event programme