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Opportunity

June 8, 2011 - Bobby - 0

Cally Beck of IBM has asked us to highlight this opportunity for Scottish HN Candidates. We are aware it is late in the academic year to initiate work for this but we are hopeful that there may be some appropriate project work that a student could submit. “The award is the GuideShare Europe academic excellence award. GuideShare Europe (GSE), is IBM’s large enterprise client user group, large companies in all sectors, including Bank of America, HSBC etc. We are asking…

Linux Training from Forth Valley College

May 25, 2011 - Bobby - 1

Thanks to the generosity of LPIC UK Scottish Further Education staff can sign up for free LPIC 1 training. The course runs from 20th June to 24th June at Forth Valley College, Falkirk Campus. Those wishing to book a place need to contact Joanne McGillvray Joanna.McGillivray@forthvalley.ac.uk or Tony Dyer (tony.dyer@forthvalley.ac.uk

New CompTIA Membership Scheme

March 24, 2011 - Bobby - 0

We work with a range of global vendors in a non exclusive way through the DIVA Programme. A number of Scottish Colleges use CompTIA Certification as part of their National Certificate programmes. We have been asked to alert School , Colleges and Universities in Scotland to their new membership scheme. The details of this can be found on the CompTIA Website here.

Linux Cascade Centre Starts Cascading

January 31, 2011 - Bobby - 0

The first part of DIVA process is to support capacity building and staff development. Here is a training for teaching staff offer from the recently appointed cascade centre for Linux Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Training Opportunity Forth Valley College, in conjunction with LPI (Linux Professional Institute) are running a CPD opportunity for staff wishing to deliver the LPI-1 qualification within their own Centre. The training will be offered on two dates and lasts 5 days at a cost of £525 per…

Cascade Centre for Linux

January 7, 2011 - Bobby - 0

We are delighted to announce that following the selection process that Forth Valley College will act as the Cascade Centre for Linux LPI Certification. Forth Valley has been selected based on their experience to date with the Linux programmes and their capacity to roll out this expertise to other Colleges in Scotland. We look forward to working with Forth Valley and the Linux Professional Institute.

Appointment of Linux Cascasde Centre

November 29, 2010 - Bobby - 6

Arriving in College Principal and Heads of Computing inboxes this week is an invitation to consider working with SQA and LINUX IT . In partnership we hope to · Upskill staff in Colleges · Build capacity across Scotland to deliver open source qualifications · Ensure that appropriate recognition is given for open source qualifications · Build a sustainable relationship with the global open source community

Oracle Academy and Thinkquest Information Seminars

November 2, 2010 - Bobby - 0

There are strong links between Higher Information Systems, a range of Higher National Units and the Oracle Academy Programme. Here is an opportunity to get involved both in the Oracle Academy Programme and to find out about Think Quest which offers opportunities across the curriculum and a lot of potential support for Curriculum for Excellence activities.

Diva Update

November 2, 2010 - Bobby - 0

In the background over the last 12 months we have been reviewing, renewing and expanding the Digital and ICT Vendor Alliance. This is a culmination of the review of the original project. As a reminder DIVA originally set out to encourage · Liaison with global vendors giving early insight into up-and-coming developments · The Mapping of vendor curriculum and certifications to SQA units · Encourage new and innovative qualification development · Develop the Provision of expert training in Scotland for…