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May 23, 2018

Recruitment of Additional QST Members

I’m currently organising the QST (Qualifications Support Team) meeting for late June 2018 in Glasgow (date and venue TBC). The QST meets once a year to discuss and support any improvements to the HN/NC group awards within the Computing/IT portfolio. The members of the QST are from colleges, schools and training providers and are a great way to let SQA know what support materials are needed to help centres deliver these awards. This is a voluntary position but travel expenses to…

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May 22, 2018

Launch event for support materials for NPA Cyber Security

As regular readers will know, we’ve been developing teaching, learning and assessment material to support the NPA Cyber Security for some time. We recently completed draft versions of the materials and we’re currently piloting this material in 20 centres across Scotland. Once the pilot is complete, we will finalise the material and have a formal launch event on Tuesday, 19 June in Glasgow. The aim of the event is to let you see what’s available to help you deliver the…

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May 22, 2018

NPA PC Passport

New Learning & Teaching Materials for the NPA PC Passport (SCQF Levels 4, 5 & 6) have been published on the SQA website. The Workbooks for Presentations, Spreadsheets and Word Processing can be found under the Qualification content and delivery tools tab, towards the bottom of the subject page. Each Workbook takes an integrated approach to learning and teaching. If you require any further information or have any questions, please contact me.

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May 21, 2018

HNC Cyber Security validation event

The validation event for the new HNC Cyber Security was held on Friday in the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow. The event was the culmination of a year of intense work to produce a new qualification in this important field. The purpose of validation is to scrutinise a new qualification by a panel of independent experts. The panel consisted of representatives of industry, education and SQA. The event went well. The proposed qualification was validated with a few conditions and…

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May 16, 2018

Update: NPA Computers Games Development

A quick update from the previous blog post about the NPAs Computer Games Development (SCQF Levels 4, 5 & 6): The Group Award has now been validated along with the units. I’m currently in the process of operationalising it (unit coding, subject page, etc.) and it will be available to Centres within the next few weeks. The current award will finish on the 1st of August 2020. If you have any queries at all about this Award, please contact me.

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