The College Development Network held their Annual Computing Conference yesterday in Stirling, organised by Gerry Dougan. There was an excellent turn-out, on a beautiful day in a lovely location. The focus of this year’s event was teaching and learning. It commenced, appropriately, with HMIe Sheila Page giving feedback on the forthcoming Aspect report on Computing in colleges (due September). Sheila’s comments were generally positive, and made it clear that improvements had been made since the previous report (in 2009) that…

The last few years has seen huge changes in the college sector, with many merging into “regional colleges”. From my subject’s perspective, this has meant that Computing Departments have combined across several centres, often into a faculty structure along with other subjects. I like to think that me and my team are pretty well known in centres but I am less familiar with these new combined course teams. So, during the new session, commencing August, I hope to work my…