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April 10, 2015

PC Passport and Office 365

The QDT for PC Passport visited the Microsoft offices in Edinburgh yesterday. Microsoft had kindly invited the team to look at the latest version of Microsoft Office (Office 365) and I was pleased to accept the invitation. PC Passport aims to cover the same territory as Office 365 — word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and databases. I was keen that the revised award is fully compatible with the latest version of the suite. It was an interesting afternoon. Office 365 has…

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April 9, 2015

Qualification Support Team for vocational Computing awards

The Qualification Support Team (QST) for vocational Computing qualifications met on 19th March in the SQA Glasgow Office. This was a combined meeting to cover both Advanced (HN/PDA) and Non-advanced (NPA/NC/NU) qualifications. The QST discussed the proposals from the SQA centres and the following changes to the existing qualifications have been approved:   Add F3GB11 Communication and F3GF 11 Numeracy to GC8R 45 NC Computer Games Development as optional units Add H17W 34 Software Development: Developing Small Scale Standalone Applications as an optional unit…

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April 7, 2015

NPA Digital Literacy

The Qualification Development Team (QDT) for the NPA in Digital Literacy met for the second time last Thursday. We had already agreed the structure of the award so the purpose of this meeting was the discuss the contents of the component units. We’ve made a lot of changes to the old award, which focussed on IT, numeracy and communications. The updated award has more of a focus on computing skills, and includes social media and online safety. We made considerable…

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March 30, 2015

Launch events for NPAs

I attended a meeting on Friday to discuss our plans to launch three important new or revised awards. These are: NPA Digital Passport NPA PC Passport NPA Cyber Security. We plan to launch Cyber Security around September time, perhaps to coincide with the Scottish Learning Festival. This award will be available to centres from August. We plan to have a combined event for Digital Passport and PC Passport since these awards are “cousins”. Digital Passport will be available to all…

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