The Digital Skills Partnership has developed the learning materials to support the Digital Forensics and Data Security SCQF level 7 units within the HNC Cyber Security, in collaboration with college lecturers from City of Glasgow College, Dundee and Angus College, New College Lanarkshire and North East Scotland College. The materials are hosted on the college Moodle platform. More information about this development can be found on the Digital Skills Partnership website. The materials will also be helpful for the HND…

It’s been a while since I last updated you about our plans to review a number of core Higher National awards. The qualifications due for review are: HNC Computing HND Computer Science HND Networking HND Technical Support HND Software Development. We carried out “scoping” of the required changes and it was agreed that HND Technical Support and HND Networking would be rolled-up into a new, single award entitled HND Networking & Infrastructure to reflect changes in industry. More recently, we…

I’m pleased to let you know that the enhanced materials for NPA Cyber Security are on their way to schools and colleges. Every school and college in Scotland will receive a complete set of nine brochures that cover the contents of the NPA and provide advice to teachers about how best to deliver the qualification. The complete list of brochures is: Educator’s Guide (x1) Learner’s Guides (x3 one each for Data Security, Digital Forensics and Ethical Hacking) Worksheets (x3 one…