{"id":3242,"date":"2019-12-04T11:04:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T11:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2019-12-04T11:04:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T11:04:52","slug":"digital-skills-partnerships-critical-friends-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/digital-skills-partnerships-critical-friends-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Skills Partnership&#8217;s Critical Friends Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Digital Skills Partnership&#8217;s Critical Friends Programme is a free mentorship programme, funded by Scottish Funding Council and Skills Development Scotland, in which lecturers are matched with industry friends for 12 months to provide insight into current industry practice and discuss how to help ensure students have the skills they need to succeed in industry.<\/p>\n<p>If you are delivering HNC\/D or Undergraduate level courses in the area of Computer Science you could be matched with one of the following industry friends:<br \/>\n\u2022 Director of Intelligent Automation at VKY Intelligent Automation<br \/>\n\u2022 CEO of Cutitronics<br \/>\n\u2022 Director of Engineering at FreeAgent<br \/>\n\u2022 or Managing Director at SwarmOnline<\/p>\n<p>To be matched with an industry friend or to find out more contact Nicole Johnston by email nicole.johnston@scotlandis.com or call 01506 472200. More information can be found on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digitalskillspartnership.scot\/critical-friends\/#academia\">DSP Critical Friends webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Digital Skills Partnership&#8217;s Critical Friends Programme is a free mentorship programme, funded by Scottish Funding Council and Skills Development Scotland, in which lecturers are matched with industry friends for 12 months to provide insight into current industry practice and discuss how to help ensure students have the skills they need to succeed in industry. If you are delivering HNC\/D or Undergraduate level courses in the area of Computer Science you could be matched with one of the following industry&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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\/3242","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}