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March 2, 2016

Launch event for SQA digital learning guides

You may have read in a previous post that SQA has been producing a number of digital guides to help people get online for the first time and carry out a range of activities using internet websites. The guides will soon be freely available to anyone who wants to use them and we are hosting a launch event on Wednesday 30 March from 11 am to 1pm at Wheatley House, 150 Ingram Street in Glasgow. If you would like to find out more about the learning guides,…

Categories: Digital Participation, Digital Skills

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March 1, 2016

Internet Safety

SQA was the first awarding body in the UK to introduce a qualification in online safety when we produced a National Unit entitled Internet Safety in 2007. The Unit quickly became popular in Scottish schools and colleges. Some schools required every pupil to undertake it early in their secondary education (typically S2). The original Unit was updated in 2012 and the current version is used within the Award in Internet Safety, which became available at the same time. Such is the…

Categories: Development, Online safety, SOLAR, Support materials, Unit Specification

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February 26, 2016

HNC/D Interactive Media review

The QDT for the review of HNC/D Interactive Media met yesterday afternoon for the fourth time. The previous meeting was held last January. The purpose of the meeting was to review progress and agree future tasks and timescales. I recently met with the Lead Developer and we felt it was a good time for the QDT to meet again. The QDT is proposing new titles for the awards: HNC Digital Design & Web Development HND Web Development HND Digital Development. This development has…

Categories: Development, HN, Media

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February 26, 2016

700 followers on Twitter

I noticed, this morning, that we’ve reached 700 followers on Twitter. I’m delighted about reaching that milestone. We started using Twitter six years ago so it has taken a few years to build that following. Thank you, if you’re one of our followers. If you’re not, please consider following the team. We promise not to drown you in updates (we only post a few each week), we only post relevant information (such as new qualifications, opportunities to work for SQA, support materials etc.)…

Categories: Social media

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February 25, 2016

CodeClan press day

I made my first visit to CodeClan yesterday. CodeClan has recently became an SQA centre and is offering the new PDA in Software Development to its students. It’s the first centre of this type in the world (there are similar ones in cities across the world) to offer a national qualifications to learners. I was asked along to participate in a press day and also to provide advice about assessment. I was impressed with the facilities and the dedication of…

Categories: PDA, Software development

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