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January 3, 2025

Happy New Year from the team!

SQA returned from the Christmas holiday today. We hope you had a nice Christmas and New Year. This coming year looks like being a busy one. The team is changing or, rather, the team is reverting to what it was. Emma and Helen are returning to the team and Gayle and Megan are returning to their substantive posts. These changes are a result of changes to the way Next Gen developments are supported. Helen and Emma have lots of experience…

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November 29, 2024

Scottish Games Education Network

I attended the annual Games Education Network event on Wednesday, held at West College Scotland, and gave a talk about national qualifications in computer games development. The event was well attended, with representatives from the games industry, education and national organisations. I took the opportunity to provide an update on the on-going sector review of computer games qualifications and encouraged attendees to complete the short survey relating to this development. My presentation included information on the range of qualifications available…

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November 21, 2024

NPA Data Science

Following Bobby’s recent blog post, I’m pleased to confirm we have now published the 8 revised units for the NPA Data Science.  The revised units are. Data Citizenship 4/5/6 Data Science 4/5/6 Machine Learning 5/6 I have linked all the units in the frameworks below Data Citizenship SCQF Level 4 Data Science SCQF Level 4   Data Citizenship SCQF Level 5 Data Science SCQF Level 5 Computer Programming SCQF Level 5 Data Security SCQF Level 5 Data Science Project SCQF…

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November 20, 2024

Help us shape HNC Esports

Regular readers will know that we’re currently in the consultation phase of developing HNC Esports. This involves interviews with key stakeholders (currently being carried out by the lead developer) and also some quantitative research. I would appreciate if you would spare of few minutes to complete this short survey on what you think should be included in the qualification. https://forms.office.com/e/1DuJVZZ70R Your contribution would be greatly appreciated and will help shape the qualification. Please contact Megan for more information about this…

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November 18, 2024

Esports Scotland conference

The first national conference organised by Esports Scotland was held at the University of the West of Scotland on Friday. The day comprised talks from leading practitioners in Scotland. There was a good attendance with the event being over-subscribed. SQA was invited to talk about national qualifications in esports. A practising teacher spoke about how her school delivered NPA Esports, and I gave a presentation on progress with developing HNC Esports. The timing of the conference was perfect since we’re…

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