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April 8, 2020

SOLAR assessment author and peer reviewers needed

We are looking for volunteers to take part in developing e-assessment for the new PDA Cyber Security. One author and one peer reviewer for Network Security Monitoring (SCQF level 8) One peer reviewer for Cyber Resilience (SCQF level 7) Training will be provided to anyone who is new to SOLAR assessments. More information about SOLAR can be found here or please contact the SOLAR team. If you are interested or have any query, please get in touch with me.  

Categories: Computing

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March 24, 2020

Coronavirus

I’d like to update you on what’s happening during the exceptional circumstances of the coronavirus crisis. SQA closed for most employees last week. Me and my team are currently (and for the foreseeable future) working from home. But we are working. It’s taken us a little while to find our feet (and get remote communications up-and-running) but we’re just about there now. We’re using Microsoft Teams to work through the crisis. I’ve received a lot of enquiries about the assessment…

Categories: Computing

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March 13, 2020

Qualification Support Team meeting

The Qualification Support Team (QST) for Computing met last week. The purpose of the QST is to provide (or recommend) support for the full range of vocational Computing qualifications. The QST includes representation from colleges and schools. There was an excellent turn-out at last week’s meeting. One of the roles that QST performs is to decide what changes should be made to existing qualifications and we spent time considering various proposals for qualification changes (for example, adding an optional unit…

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March 9, 2020

NPA Data Science assessments on SOLAR

Further to a previous post, I can now confirm that the assessments for the mandatory units of the NPA Data Science are now available on SOLAR. Therefore, you will find assessments for the following units: J2HN 44 Data Citizenship J2G2 44 Data Science J2HN 45 Data Citizenship J2G2 45 Data Science J2HN 46 Data Citizenship J2G2 46 Data Science There are four more assessments currently in production for the units below and these should be available by end March 2020:…

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March 4, 2020

Cyber security training

The training for teachers of NPA Cyber Security is now complete. We held practical, hands-on training events at locations across Scotland during February. The last event took place last Friday (in Edinburgh). Over 100 teachers were trained. We gave each teacher a complete set of training materials to take away. The events went well and seemed to be well received by teachers. Early indications are that lots more schools will offer the NPA next session, thanks to the availability of…

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