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October 9, 2019

Digital Skills Partnership’s CPD events

The Digital Skills Partnership (DSP) will be running the following events in November and December 2019: 1. Industry Current Practice on Cloud Architecture and Cloud Services: take place at 1-5pm on 6/11 at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. will be repeated with a different speaker at 1-5pm on 13/11 at Inoapps, 2 Fountainhall Road, Aberdeen, AB15 4DT. include presentations from Pulsant (in Glasgow) and Inoapps (in Aberdeen) on current practice they are implementing in this area; include presentations illustrating how our…

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October 7, 2019

Cyber Escape Room Challenge

If Cyber Resilience is up your street, then the College Development Network has the thing for you. They are organising three days of Cyber Escape Rooms this month. They are aimed at college staff initially, but they have now opened it up to staff/students too. The Cyber Escape rooms will be held at Strathclyde University as follows: Date: 22nd to 24th October Location: Strathclyde University Times: Date AM (2 sessions running in parallel) PM (2 sessions running in parallel) Tuesday…

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October 3, 2019

SQA values

The Qualifications Development Autumn conference was held yesterday in Glasgow. This annual event provides an opportunity for SQA staff to get together to reflect on things and plan for the future. I attended a number of workshops, one of which was about SQA’s values. Our values are: Trusted Enabling Progressive. We normally score highly in external surveys for trust and equipping people but less highly for innovation, which was borne out at the workshop (SQA staff think likewise). I plan…

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October 1, 2019

Support group for NPA Data Science

SQA’s remit is to develop and maintain national qualifications. We also produce some support materials (assessments) for centres and, of course, provide the annual diet of examinations. Our support role is normally limited to these activities but every now and again we’re able to go further and provide additional support to centres in the form of teaching and learning material. Thanks to extra funding from the Scottish Government, we were able to provide significant additional support for NPA Cyber Security,…

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October 1, 2019

Team changes

I recently posted about Emma’s return to the team. I had an extra team member for a couple of weeks (when Helen, Emma and Lorraine were working for me) but that has now come to an end and I am back to my original team. So, from this point on, it’s me, Emma and Helen. Operationally, this means that we’re “back to normal”. Emma is responsible for non-advanced qualifications (National Units, NPAs, NCs) and SVQ/CBQs, and Helen is responsible for…

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