{"id":2353,"date":"2017-09-15T15:21:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T14:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2017-09-15T15:21:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T14:21:49","slug":"technology-industry-advisory-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/technology-industry-advisory-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Industry Advisory Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a Technology Industry Advisory Board (TIAB) meeting on Tuesday. The Board is a joint initiative, between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk\/\">Skills Development Scotland<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/\">SQA<\/a>, to provide advice and guidance to both bodies about industry needs and external trends.<\/p>\n<p>I was invited to speak about vocational qualifications, in general, and, specifically, about how we try to keep them up to date and relevant to industry. We&#8217;ve done a lot of development work in the last few years, so the <a href=\"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/b\/s!Av71_tveB0_uhbNLSAarDwLU6zdcEA\">qualification portfolio<\/a> is pretty up-to-date right now, with qualifications (or individual units) in computer science, data analytics, cyber security and artificial intelligence &#8211; with more on the way. I also described the various committees that advise us and help SQA to produce qualifications including the Sector Panel for Computing, which provides me with strategic advice.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/Computing-Committees-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2354\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/Computing-Committees-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>\n<p>I was asked how we keep individual units up to date, given the rapid rate of change in the computing field. I acknowledged that that was a challenge but pointed out that we&#8217;re doing a better job now in writing units in a more generic way, which means that they don&#8217;t date so rapidly. I used the recently written <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/files\/hn\/HT9T34.pdf\">Artificial Intelligence unit<\/a> as an example.<\/p>\n<p>It was an interesting meeting, which also covered the perennial problem of gender imbalance in the computing industry. I think that the Board will be a great help to me and my team in the coming years. Please <a href=\"mailto:derek.houston@sqa.org.uk\">contact Derek Houston<\/a> if you want to know more about the work of the TIAB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a Technology Industry Advisory Board (TIAB) meeting on Tuesday. The Board is a joint initiative, between Skills Development Scotland and SQA, to provide advice and guidance to both bodies about industry needs and external trends. I was invited to speak about vocational qualifications, in general, and, specifically, about how we try to keep them up to date and relevant to industry. We&#8217;ve done a lot of development work in the last few years, so the qualification portfolio is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}