We promote the use of credit for curriculum development and learner achievement

The 2006 Final Report of the Burgess Group recommends that all publicly funded courses should have been academically credit-rated by September 2009, as credit accumulation is the currency that provides an effective measure of achievement and progression of thousands of learners in the UK and Europe.

Although not awarded to all students by all of the UK's publicly-funded universities, academic credit is a tool for assessing and expressing learning achievement and equivalence. It plays an important role in rewarding the incremental progress of learners, it facilitates student transfer, it eases the recognition of prior learning, and it contributes to the definition of academic standards.

SEEC provides and facilitates a range of activities related to current issues in credit-based practice in higher education and elsewhere, based on its members’ needs and requests. Some of these have developed over many years, and provide a foundation for the educational and support work, such as the publication of level descriptors for further and higher education. Others are immediate responses to changes in the use of credit in learning, such as working with issues around credit in Europe.

Academic Credit, on the top menu bar, describes the use of credit more comprehensively, and gives links to other websites.