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HND Computing

September 10, 2004 - Bobby - 0

Now that the HNC Computing award has been validated, the development team can turn their attention to the HND. After this morning’s launch event, the team met to discuss how to take this forward. Much of the HND development work has already been done but the team have to finalise things during the next few months. The target is to validate the award in December so that it’s available to centres from early next year. In addition to the traditional…

Internetworking/Multimedia launch event

September 10, 2004 - Bobby - 0

Internetworking Multimedia launch event Originally uploaded by bobbyelliott. The launch event for the new Internetworking and Multimedia awards was held today in the Stirling Highland Hotel. Around 60 people attended from various colleges across Scotland as well as representatives of national agencies such as the Scottish Executive and Learning & Teaching Scotland. Representives of Microsoft, Oracle and CompTIA also attended. The event went well and most people expressed their interest in offering one or other (or both) of these awards.…

Meeting with Oracle

September 7, 2004 - Bobby - 0

I met with Jane Richardson of Oracle this morning to discuss next week’s seminars about the Oracle Academy programme. Jane has arranged two events next week – one in Edinburgh (Monday) and one in Glasgow (Wednesday) to update people about the programme. Six Scottish schools and colleges have signed up and several lucky teachers and lecturers have just finished a 10 week training programme (two weeks of which were spent in UCLA) to help them deliver the course. I’m speaking…

300 hits in a week

September 6, 2004 - Bobby - 0

I set-up a hit-counter last week to monitor traffic on this blog. There has been 300 hits in a week. That’s an average of 60 per day. The traffic statistics are interesting. It takes time to maintain a blog and I wasn’t sure if it was worthwhile but it looks like it is.

E-Qualifications validation date

September 1, 2004 - Bobby - 0

A suite of qualifications relating to e-learning and e-assessment has been under development for the last year and a date has now been agreed for their validation. The validation event will take place on 29 September and will be held in the SQA offices in Glasgow. The Panel will be chaired by Andew Comrie of Lauder College. We’re excited about this development since it includes (what we think) is the world’s first national qualification in online assessment (the Diploma in…

Internetworking/Multimedia event

August 31, 2004 - Bobby - 0

Today is the latest date when you can register for the above event online. Places will be organised on a first-come basis so please register ASAP if you’re interested in attending. More information on the Internetworking e-group.

E-mail reminders

August 21, 2004 - Bobby - 0

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Awarding Body Forum

August 19, 2004 - Bobby - 0

The E-Skills Awarding Body Forum met today. The Forum consists of representatives of various awarding bodies (such as City & Guilds and EdExcel but including SQA) who meet to discuss areas of common interest relating to S/NVQs. Today’s meeting focussed on the new IT User awards and the IT Professional awards which are currently under development. The main news relating to IT User is that E-Skills is about to finalise a credit transfer system to allow candidates to transfer “old”…

HNC Computing Arrangements are available

August 18, 2004 - Bobby - 0

We’ve been busy finalising the paperwork since the HNC Computing award was validated a couple of weeks ago. The final version of the revised HNC Computing Arrangements is available for download here (1.5Mb download). It was also uploaded to the HN Computing e-group today. The group award is available to centres now and the units are presently being uploaded to the SQA website. Contact Shirley Sampson for more information about the availability of this award.

Online registration for Internetworking/Multimedia event

August 17, 2004 - Bobby - 5

The HN Internetworking and Multimedia launch event will take place on Friday, 10 September at the Stirling Highland Hotel. You can register for this event by selecting the button below: The event will introduce the new suites of Internetworking and Multimedia awards. Qualification developers and vendor representatives will be present.