The team are helped by two committees. These are the Sector Panel and the Qualifications Support Team (QST). The Sector Panel provides strategic advice to the team about such things as new qualifications needed by employers. The membership comprises representatives of industry, education, training centres and national organisations. The Qualification Support Team advises us about the types of support needed for existing qualifications. The membership comprises school teachers, college lecturers and training providers. We’re looking for new members for both committees. The time…

Over 300 educators have joined the Viva Engage (aka Yammer) network, dedicated to supporting vocational qualifications in Computing. There are specialist groups to support various qualifications including NPA Cyber Security, NPA Esports, NPA Data Science and SVQs. So, if you teach a vocational Computing qualification in a school, college or training centre, please consider joining the network. You’ll find it at this URL: https://www.yammer.com/sqacomputing We plan to focus our support efforts on this platform this session so we think you’ll…

I recently announced that SQA will be developing a new, broad-based vocational qualification in Computing and we’re now in a position to form a Qualification Development Team (QDT) for this work. The QDT is responsible to designing and developing the qualification so it serves a vital role. We’re looking for educators, employers and others to participate. Although serving on the committee is not paid, additional work (such as writing units) is paid. The work will take place from now (August)…