The Scottish Vocational Educational Council (SCOTVEC) was the

awarding body In the United Kingdom, an awarding body is an examination board which sets examinations and awards Professional certification, qualifications, such as General Certificate of Secondary Education, GCSEs and Advanced Level (UK), A-levels. Additionally ...

for

vocational qualification Vocational education is education that prepares people to work as a technician or to take up employment in a skilled craft or trade as a tradesperson or artisan. Vocational Education can also be seen as that type of education given to an ind ...

s in

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

from 1985 until 1997. SCOTVEC was established by the merger of the

Scottish Business Education Council Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English * Scottish national identity, the Scottish id ...

(SCOTBEC) and the

Scottish Technical Education Council Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English * Scottish national identity, the Scottish id ...

(SCOTEC) in 1985. It awarded the vast majority of Scottish vocational qualifications. In 1997, SCOTVEC merged with its academic counterpart, the

Scottish Examination Board The Scottish Examination Board (SEB), formerly known as the Scottish Certificate of Education Examination Board (SCEEB), was the Examination board, academic examination board for Scottish schools from 1965 to 1997. History From their introductio ...

, to form the

Scottish Qualifications Authority The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA; Gaelic: ''Ùghdarras Theisteanas na h-Alba'') is the executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government responsible for accrediting educational awards. It is partly funded by the Ed ...

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Examination boards in the United Kingdom Educational organisations based in Scotland Government agencies established in 1985 Government agencies disestablished in 1997 1985 establishments in Scotland 1997 disestablishments in Scotland Vocational education in Scotland {{Scotland-gov-stub