NUCCAT

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NUCCAT, the Northern Universities Consortium for Credit Accumulation and Transfer, is a federation of some 40 higher education institutions in the UK - from the north-east to the midlands in England - but also including the two Northern Ireland universities, the University of Ulster and Queen's University, Belfast.

UCAS, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service of the UK , is also a member.

NUCCAT meets regularly with the representatives of the other UK credit consortia in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Southern England and Wales. The credit consortia work together a) to develop guidelines for the development and implementation of a national credit framework to harmonise with the QAA National Qualifications Framework for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and b) to contribute to the UK Credit Equivalence Project, which aims to establish the credit value of qualifications not currently credit-rated.

Its web site is at http://www.nuccat.ac.uk/

The members of NUCCAT are listed at http://www.nuccat.ac.uk/NUCCAT%20members.htm

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