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October 24, 2018

Help us improve NPA Cyber Security materials

I recently mentioned that we’re planning to enhance the existing support materials for NPA Cyber Security. The first stage is to find out what you want. Additional support for NPA Cyber Security To that end, I have devised a short questionnaire to find out what materials you currently use and how these can be improved. I would appreciate if you would take a few minutes to complete the questionnaire, which you will find on this link. The more responses we…

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October 22, 2018

Online Register for Digital Skills Partnership (DSP) December events

Hi all, As previously mentioned about the upcoming Digital Skills Partnership (DSP) December events. We now have online booking information for these dates. Please see the links below to register: Glasgow Event on 6th December –  www.events.cdn.ac.uk/ehome/374816?&t=c52b409c7572abbcdc2394f795074465 Edinburgh Event on 10th December –  www.events.cdn.ac.uk/ehome/374819?&t=285e5f1b296acd4bac75b8d33d4effd9 Please contact Lesley if you want to know more about these events. Contact myself, Caitlin if you want to know more about the HNC.

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October 18, 2018

Additional support for NPA Cyber Security

I’m pleased to let you know that the Scottish Government has provided funding to develop additional support materials for NPA Cyber Security. This money will be spent improving the existing materials and, perhaps, devising some new materials. The focus will be on enhancement, rather than creating new materials, but this might mean, for example, creating more practical activities. I’m not quite sure what precise form these enhancements will take and I’m currently carrying out some research to find out what…

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October 18, 2018

Lorraine Introduction

Hello, I’m Lorraine McFadyen and have recently joined the Computing team to cover Emma’s post whilst she’s on maternity leave. I previously worked for SQA as a Contract Officer dealing with the Maritime & Coastguard Contract. Whilst I’m not new to SQA, I’ll be familiarising myself with the vocational portfolio over the coming weeks and would appreciate your patience. Working alongside Bobby and Caitlin, I will be responsible for the non-advanced qualifications, my remit will include: National Units National Certificates NPAs…

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October 17, 2018

Changes to HND Computer Science

We commenced the review of HND Computer Science in 2017 to address some of the issues that had been raised since it was first introduced in 2012. The main problem was that many people felt that it wasn’t “computer science-y” enough so we set out to address that issue. Unfortunately, the development took longer than expected — for a number of reasons, the main one being that the QDT wasn’t sure how “computer science-y” to make it. We had lots…

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