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September 12, 2016

Quality Network meeting

A Quality Network meeting was held last Wednesday to support centres that offer SVQs and CBQs in Computing. These are workplace qualifications (mostly) offered by training providers. My team deal with three sectors: (1) schools; (2) colleges; and (3) training centres. During the last few years, training centres haven’t received the same attention as colleges and schools. So this event was overdue. There was an excellent turnout with over 30 people in attendance and presentations from Skills Development Scotland, Tech Partnership…

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September 8, 2016

Sector Panel meeting

The Sector Panel for Computing met on Tuesday. The purpose of the Panel is to provide strategic advice to SQA about external developments in the sector. Members are drawn from industry (including professional bodies), education (schools, colleges and universities) and the third sector. One of the most important functions of the Panel is to ensure that the qualification portfolio matches the needs of stakeholders. So a standing item at every meeting is to discuss my operational plan. This week’s meeting…

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August 31, 2016

Professional Career Development in the IT Industry unit

We have recently developed a new SCQF Level 7 unit – Professional Career Development in the IT Industry. This unit has been added into the following frameworks as an optional unit: G9AY 16 HND Interactive Media GF3E 15 HNC Computing GG7C 16 HND Computing: Networking GG7F 16 HND Computing: Technical Support GG7E 16 HND Computing: Software Development   A communication will be sent to centres via SQA Weekly update. Please contact me if you have any query.

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August 30, 2016

School and college online groups

Further to the recent post about re-organising online groups, I’ve now set up two new groups — one for school teachers and one for college lecturers. You can join the school group here and join the college group here. We decided at the recent team meeting that organising the groups around centre type made more sense (and was more manageable) than organising them around specific qualifications since it meant a much bigger group of people to provide peer support. It…

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August 29, 2016

Changes to online groups

As many of you know, the team has been using online groups, to support centres, for many years. During the recent team meeting, we discussed our use of these groups and decided to rationalise them. We decided to create three new groups: one for schools one for colleges and one for training centres. We presently have an inconsistent approach to the groups — some subjects (such as Cyber Security) have a dedicated group, some subjects share a group, and some subjects…

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