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September 17, 2018

Tech Partnership closing

The Tech Partnership ceases operations this month. Together with its predecessor organisation – E-Skills UK – it has served as the Sector Skills Council for IT since 2003. Transitional arrangements have been put in place to ensure the smooth transfer of its work to other bodies.A key function previously carried out by The Tech Partnership was its work in Apprenticeships, which will now be carried out by Instructus. The closure of The Tech Partnership means that there is no Sector…

Categories: Computing

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September 14, 2018

SQA’s digital team

A few weeks ago, I told you about changes to the Computing portfolio, whereby “digital” qualifications and “computer science” qualifications would be separated and ran by different teams. Hilary Weir leads the digital team, and recently posted a message on the digital blog about the changes. This post also describes the responsibilities of her new team. These changes will permit each team to focus on their respective areas. There is a great deal going on in computer science and digital…

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September 14, 2018

Digital Skills Partnership training for HNC Cyber Security

Digital Skills Partnership (DSP) is an initiative from Scotland IS to provide CPD to college and university lecturers. A number of events have been arranged to help college lecturers deliver the new HNC Cyber Security. Each event will cover: an introduction to cyber security how cyber security is applied in a real world setting demonstrations of aspects of cyber security that can be recreated with students in class discussions on the HNC in Cyber Security which focus on sharing existing…

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September 12, 2018

Moving forward with digital literacy

Over the past four years the team has been involved in a wide range of digital literacy initiatives and worked with many strategic groups in the sector. We are excited to be taking on new responsibilities within SQA including developing, managing and maintaining a portfolio of qualifications. We will continue to look after the digital learning guides developed to support people with limited experience in digital practices and offer a route to further skills progression through SQA units and awards. We are looking forward…

Categories: Digital literacy, Digital Skills

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September 11, 2018

Assessments for Computer Games

The NPA Computer Games Development and NC Computer Games Development qualifications were revised last year to update their contents and streamline their assessments. I’ve received several queries about the availability of assessments for these awards. The Assessment Support Packs (ASPs) for the NPA are integrated assessments. We are developing one ASP for each level. So there will be a Level 4 ASP, a Level 5 ASP and a Level 6 ASP. The Level 6 ASP is available now (on SQA…

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