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November 3, 2015

Vendor survey

The College Development Network (CDN) is currently carrying out some research into what colleges offer in the way of vendor certification. The intention is, once this is known, to provide training to lecturers. Lots of vocational Computing qualifications are linked to vendor awards so the offer of free training sounds like a great idea. If you’re interested in participating in this research. Please contact Gerry (of CDN) for more information about this project or contact Hilary for more information about…

Categories: Research, Vendor

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November 2, 2015

Unit writing training for PDA Software Development

The training for unit writers involved in the new PDA in Software Development took place on Friday in Glasgow. We’re developing nine new HN Units in total: Software Development: Analysis & Design, Software Development: Implementation & Testing, and Software Development: Project. Each Unit is a double credit Unit and is repeated in each of the three levels (SCQF Levels 7, 8 and 9). The team is a mix of the very experienced, the less experienced and the new. It was…

Categories: PDA, Qualifications

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October 26, 2015

Internet Safety training conference

PolicyHub Scotland is hosting a conference on Wednesday about Internet Safety. As part of the conference, it’s hosting a series of articles about safety-related issues. I was asked to contribute one about cyber security and Internet safety. I choose the topic “Online safety, cyber security and digital literacy” to show the relationship between these subjects, and to argue that online safety is an aspect of cyber security, which is itself an aspect of digital literacy. The intention is that the discussion…

Categories: Cyber Security, Event

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October 19, 2015

HNC Computer Science and HNC Data Analytics

I recently announced a new development, which involves the creation of two new HNCs: 1. HNC Computer Science 2. HNC Data Analytics Since then, a Qualification Development Team (QDT) has been created and the first meeting was held this afternoon. The Team consists of representatives of colleges, universities and industry. The University of Strathclyde is represented on the QDT since the new HNCs will be designed to articulate with a number of their B.Sc. courses, through their Digital Academy programme,…

Categories: Articulation, Computing, Development, HN, Qualifications

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October 16, 2015

International Conference on Cyber Security and Education

I attended this conference today, along with Helen, which was held in the beautiful grounds of the Scottish Police College in Alloa. The event featured in today’s Herald newspaper since it involved cyber crime experts from around the world including the FBI and Interpol. Steven Wilson, of the Specialist Crime Division of Police Scotland, gave the opening address and made specific mention of the importance of education, which he described as the “key” to tackling cyber crime. He, kindly, made…

Categories: Cyber Security, Event, NPA

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