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May 10, 2017

HNCD Technologies in Business consultation

We are currently developing HNCD Technologies in Business (the revised HNCD Information Technology). As part of the development process, we consult with stakeholders about the nature and content of the award. I would appreciate if you could take 5 -10 minutes to complete this short questionnaire about the new qualification. https://goo.gl/forms/o1bELhs2tH7bvyCC3 Please feel free to share this survey with your networks. Thank you in anticipation of your assistance.

Categories: Computing, Development, HN

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May 10, 2017

We’re hiring

I recently encouraged readers to consider becoming an SQA External Verifier (EV). We are now formally advertising for EVs. I hope that you consider applying. We’re looking for new EVs in all three of my cognate groups – Computer Science, Digital Literacy and Information Technology. We’re particularly looking for people with experience of the school and university sectors – but don’t let that stop you if you have a different background. The job of an EV is really interesting. It’s fantastic…

Categories: Computing

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May 4, 2017

HNC/D Computer Science review

As previously mentioned, we started scoping the changes needed to HND Computer Science in February. We also considered the need for a separate HNC Computer Science. The consultant has now completed the work. His report makes interesting reading. His main conclusions are: no need for a separate HNC significant changes to the HND. The report contains a lot of details about why he recommended these actions and also a lot of information about the sorts of changes needed to the…

Categories: Computing

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April 28, 2017

Connecting the Unconnected

SQA were invited to attend Digital Scotland’s Connecting the Unconnected conference in Inverness on Wednesday 26 April. It was a very interesting event with speakers from a variety of organisations including Scottish Government, SCVO, Highland Council and Google. We were there to showcase our Digital Learning Guides and there was a great deal of interest from all who dropped by the stand, including DWP/Jobcentre staff, housing authorities and third sector/charity organisations. The event was hosted by Martyn Wallace, Chief Digital…

Categories: Digital Skills

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April 26, 2017

Adding units to qualifications

My team get a lot of requests to add units to existing qualifications. These requests are passed to the Qualifications Support Team (QST) for consideration. If approved, these units are added (as options) to the award(s). We normally do this on an ad hoc basis but we’re going to change that. In future, we will update frameworks once per year (each July). Any request that we receive will be added to a “change request register”, which we will submit to…

Categories: Computing

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