24 June 2025

Digital Badging Commission launches national digital badging toolkit

Supporting skills recognition and learning across the UK.

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The Digital Badging Commission has launched a national digital badging toolkit to support skills recognition across the UK.

The Digital Badging Commission, a partnership led by Ufi and the RSA, has launched a suite of free, customisable exemplar badges to support consistent, credible recognition of skills and learning across the UK.

Developed in partnership with practitioners from education, employment, and community sectors, the 12 templates show how digital badges can be used in real-world settings – from schools and colleges to volunteering, the arts, and the workplace.

Each badge is downloadable and comes with ready-made content, criteria, and platform-specific guidance for different online credential providers. The aim is to make issuing badges simpler, faster, and more meaningful for organisations who are new to the practice.

Professor Sir Chris Husbands and Rebecca Garrod-Waters, co-chairs of the Digital Badging Commission, said:

 

“These exemplars are part of a much bigger ambition. We believe the UK needs a more inclusive and flexible way of recognising what people know, what they can do, and how they contribute – wherever that learning happens.

Digital badges have the potential to transform the way qualifications work, particularly by giving visibility to skills and achievements that are currently overlooked or undervalued.

This toolkit is a practical step forward to help organisations of all kinds start that journey”.

The new exemplars cover 12 different areas – including the recognition of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) learners’ personal development, to celebrating entry-level work skills, to formalising employer professional development schemes.

This new resource forms part of the Commission’s work to explore the future of digital credentials and qualifications in the UK. Final recommendations to government, businesses and the education sector will be published in October 2025.

 

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