{"id":240,"date":"2025-02-06T16:13:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T16:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillheadsupportforlearning\/?page_id=240"},"modified":"2025-02-06T16:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T16:19:57","slug":"eal-qualification","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillheadsupportforlearning\/english-as-an-additional-language-eal\/eal-qualification\/","title":{"rendered":"EAL Qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><b>SQA qu<\/b><strong>alifications:\u00a0 English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www1.sqa.org.uk\/images\/logo376x376.png\" alt=\"Scottish Qualifications Authority - SQA\" width=\"101\" height=\"101\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The SQA now offer ESOL qualifications at National 2 through to National 6 (Higher) for certain bilingual pupils who arrived in the UK during their secondary education, as an alternative to English exams.<\/p>\n<p>At present, we have a range of pupils from S4-6 working towards ESOL SQA qualifications.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nateclascotland.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/esolsqa-1.png\" alt=\"Just announced: SQA ESOL qualifications benchmarked by UK NARIC | NATECLA Scotland\" width=\"395\" height=\"108\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>From the SQA (23.10.24)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Higher ESOL is already accepted at universities for entry into secondary teacher education courses. We\u2019re pleased to advise that Higher ESOL will now be accepted at universities across Scotland for entry into all primary teacher education courses for 2025-26 onwards.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a welcome development, which confirms Higher ESOL\u2019s status as a fully equivalent qualification to Higher English for UCAS applications to university courses in Scotland.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SQA qualifications:\u00a0 English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)\u00a0 The SQA now offer ESOL qualifications at National 2 through to National 6 (Higher) for certain bilingual pupils who arrived in the UK during their secondary education, as an alternative to English exams. At present, we have a range of pupils from S4-6 working towards ESOL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13714,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-240","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillheadsupportforlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillheadsupportforlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillheadsupportforlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillheadsupportforlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillheadsupportforlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillheadsupportforlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillheadsupportforlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240\/revisions\/242"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillheadsupportforlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillheadsupportforlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}