The annual standardisation meeting for External Verifiers (EVs) took place on Saturday. These meetings take place once or twice a year so that the EVs apply common standards when they check centres. Me and my team take the opportunity to update the EVs about qualification developments so that they’re aware of what has changed and what is coming. We recently separated the verification groups so that 358 Digital Literacy is now separate from 357 Computer Science and 288 Information Technology.…

The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed a new URL for this blog. https://blogs.qualifications.gov.scot/computing-digital/ We’ve merged the Computing blog and the Digital team’s blog into one, since your interest probably spans both portfolios. I appreciate it can be confusing who does what since three teams are involved in supporting centres with computing/computer science/digital qualifications. I posted about that a few months ago if you want to check exactly where all the qualifications sit. You don’t have to update anything right…