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December 21, 2017

Merry Christmas from the team

Emma, Helen and I would like to wish you a nice holiday when it comes. We stop today until Wednesday, 3 January. But, in the meantime, you can contact us in the usual way. It’s been a good year for the team. It started with the validation of HNC Data Analytics, followed later in the year with the validation of HNC/D Technologies in Business. Two NPAs were refreshed this year: NPA Digital Media and NPA Web Design. We commenced the…

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December 19, 2017

Digital Skills Partnership event

I attended the Digital Skills Partnership (DSP) event on “Data Science, machine learning and AI” at City of Glasgow College last week. The DSP is a new collaboration between universities and colleges to provide CPD to lecturers in Computer Science. The Chief Technology Officer of an informatics company gave an interesting talk about how business can use data science and AI, and also discussed how things are likely to develop in the future. There was a good attendance at the…

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December 18, 2017

Dip. in Dig. App. Support – Framework Update

An amendment to the framework of the Diploma in Digital Application Support at SCQF level 6 (GL2K 46) was recently approved (13 December 2017). The amendment is as follows: Addition of Unit H3AH 04 Investigating and Defining Customer Requirements for IT and Telecoms Systems 2 to Group B1 of the framework. This change should appear on the SQA website in the near future. You may also check this change in the CBQ History of changes log. For further information or…

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December 13, 2017

Unit writing for HNC Cyber Security

The team that will be responsible for writing the units that are part of the new HNC Cyber Security met yesterday in Glasgow. There are 19 people in the team, with a good mix of the new (to unit writing) and the experienced. There is also an interesting mix of backgrounds – including people from the school and training sectors (as well as, of course, the college sector). I was particularly pleased to see school teachers get involved in the…

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December 9, 2017

EV meeting

Once a year, the External Verifier (EV) team, led by the Senior External Verifier, meet to ensure that they all apply the same standards when they visit centres. There was a “standardisation” meeting in Glasgow today. Me and my team attend these meetings to provide an update on the qualification developments that have taken place over the last year so that the EVs are aware of these changes – and what they might face when they visit centres. It’s always…

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