{"id":898,"date":"2007-08-02T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2007\/08\/02\/achievement-and-recruitment\/"},"modified":"2007-08-02T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T12:58:00","slug":"achievement-and-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/achievement-and-recruitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Achievement and recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had lunch with Ron Dillin today. Ron and I were colleagues at Stow College in the early Nineties and it was good to catch up with things&#8230; and Ron&#8217;s views are always sensible and thought-provoking.<\/p>\n<p>We spent most of the time discussing issues facing FE Computing departments &#8211; particularly recruitment and student achievement (historically poor in this subject area).  He also reminded me of the gender imbalance in Computing courses (typically, 10% of students are women).<\/p>\n<p>We discussed at some length what could be done about these problems. I was particularly interested to know what SQA could do to help things. I plan to arrange a Head of Computing meeting later this year and it seems worthwhile to include these issues on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>These problems are not unique to FE. HE has the same issues (Ron gave the example of a university Computing Science department receiving 60% fewer applications last year than in 2003). But maybe we can put our heads together and do something to help things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had lunch with Ron Dillin today. Ron and I were colleagues at Stow College in the early Nineties and it was good to catch up with things&#8230; and Ron&#8217;s views are always sensible and thought-provoking. We spent most of the time discussing issues facing FE Computing departments &#8211; particularly recruitment and student achievement (historically poor in this subject area). He also reminded me of the gender imbalance in Computing courses (typically, 10% of students are women). We discussed at&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\/898","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=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}