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December 16, 2021

Team changes

I’d like to welcome Amy Blain to the team. Amy will replace Helen, who is now working as part of the Next Gen team. Amy currently works in the Strategic Planning & Governance team within SQA. So the new team consists of me, Megan and Amy. Megan replaced Emma (who also joined the Next Gen team). Megan will look after the non-advanced portfolio (NPAs, NCs and National Units) and SVQs, and Amy will look after the advanced portfolio (HNCs, HNDs…

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November 23, 2021

Moving to HTML assessments

Following a recent query regarding errors in questions on a Data Citizenship SOLAR test, we have noticed that some centres are still using Flash versions of assessments on SOLAR. We are trying to move away from these and would therefore encourage you to use HTML versions of assessments where they are available. If you would like to know more, please contact the SOLAR team.

Categories: Computing

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November 19, 2021

National Units in Data Skills

It’s been a while since I updated you about this development. At that time, I told you about our plans to develop three new National Units: Data Skills (SCQF Level 3) Data Skills (SCQF Level 4) Data Skills (SCQF Level 5). We commenced development on these units in July. However, when we shared draft versions of the unit outlines, we got mixed feedback from people. As a result of that feedback, I consulted about the contents of the units with…

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November 16, 2021

Next Gen update

I’m pleased to tell you that we received a number of applications to pilot HNC Computing from August 2022. Regular readers will know that we didn’t get volunteers the first time of asking, so I was delighted to get several this time. As a result, two colleges (New College Lanarkshire and North East Scotland College) will deliver the new HNC from August 2022. The pilot will be evaluated in Spring 2023. No-one came forward to offer HND Data Science but…

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November 9, 2021

External Verifier meeting

The External Verifier (EV) team for Computing met on Saturday morning for their annual standardisation meeting. The meeting took place on Teams. The purpose of this meeting is to ensure that all EVs understand, and apply, the same standards when they visit centres. So, the Senior External Verifier (SEV) went over last year’s verification activity and the team discussed approaches to verification for the current session. I usually do a qualification update at the event, and this year I explained…

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