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July 10, 2018

HND Cyber Security

I’m pleased to let you know that we are about to commence the development of HND Cyber Security. We’ve recently completed the HNC and the next stage in the development is to produce an HND. The HND will build on the HNC but is a much larger qualification (30 credits as opposed to 12 credits) and provides a much more thorough grounding in the subject. So, we’re looking for members for the Qualification Development Team. We plan to re-invite the…

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July 9, 2018

New data science qualification for schools and colleges

I’m pleased to let you know that we will be developing a new suite of qualifications in data science. The qualification will be a National Progression Award in Data Science and will be available at three levels – SCQF Level 4 (National 4), SCQF Level 5 (National 5) and SCQF Level 6 (Higher). As far as we can tell, this will be the first national qualification in data science, designed for schools, anywhere in the world. Data science is a…

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July 6, 2018

Annual team meeting

Once a year, me and my team take a day out to discuss how we do things and how we can do things better. We had our annual team meeting yesterday and discussed a range of things including: the qualification development process how to improve the quality of qualifications our communication and collaboration tools how to reduce the time it takes to develop qualifications. Our processes have evolved over a long period of time, so they’re pretty mature and robust.…

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July 4, 2018

Blockchain units

We are currently recruiting writers and vetters for two units in Blockchain. One unit will be at SCQF level 7 and the other one at SCQF level 8. The two units will be included in the development of the HND Cyber Security, which will be kicking off shortly. However, we are in a position to start developing these units immediately. We already have unit outlines for these two units, which you can have a look at (and contribute to) via…

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July 3, 2018

Qualification Support Team meeting

The Qualification Support Team (QST) met last week.The QST has two main functions: (1) to identify the support that centres need to better deliver SQA awards; and (2) consider changes to qualifications. The membership consists of school teachers, college lecturers and trainers. These meetings are not talk-shops. At this one, we agreed a number of changes to qualifications (most of which were requested by centres prior to the meeting) and also agreed to develop a number of new support materials…

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