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March 8, 2018

Technology Industry Advisory Board

The Technology Industry Advisory Board (TIAB) is a Scottish Government/SQA committee that looks at the best ways for education to meet the needs of industry. Members are drawn from organisations across Scotland. I attended a meeting today to discuss the qualification development process.The Board wanted to know if there was anything it could do to improve the process. It was a good, positive meeting. I explained the strengths and weaknesses of the current process. The strengths include the robust procedures in…

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March 6, 2018

ASP writers needed- NPA Computer Games Development

We have now finalised the review of the units of the NPA Computer Games Development. We are now, therefore, looking for writers to undertake the task of writing the ASPs for these units. We are aiming to develop three ASPs. We would like the ASPs to have an integrated approach, whereby each ASP would cover all units at one level (eg Design, Media Assets and Development at Level 4). Consequently, this would encourage a holistic approach to assessment, whereby candidates…

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March 5, 2018

HNC Cyber Security update

It’s been a while since we updated you about the new cyber security qualifications. As many of you will know, we’re developing a suite of new qualifications over the next three years: HNC Cyber Security, HND Cyber Security and PDA Cyber Security. We’re currently working on the HNC qualification. It’s coming along well. The Qualification Development Team (and some others) is busy with writing the units that will make up the award. We’re developing a large number of new units…

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February 13, 2018

Refreshed HND Computer Science

I recently posted an update about the revision of HND Computer Science. Since then the QDT has finalised the framework. The main change to the qualification is that Managing a Web Server has been replaced by Computer Architecture in the mandatory section of the award. We’ve also tidied the optional units to make them more relevant to the field of computer science. We’re currently working on the group award specification (GAS) and hope to have this ready in the next…

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February 9, 2018

NPA/NC Computer Games Development review – Update

The review of the NPA Computer Games Development is progressing well. The units have all been written and validated. The next stage is house styling and operationalising the units. This should be done within the next few weeks. All revised units should be available for delivery by end March. No changes have been made to the titles of the units. However, given the significant changes, the units will require recoding. Once the units have been published, the group award will…

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