{"id":506,"date":"2010-11-26T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/2010\/11\/26\/collegeuniversity-subject-partnership\/"},"modified":"2010-11-26T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T15:58:00","slug":"collegeuniversity-subject-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/collegeuniversity-subject-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"College\/university subject partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended a meeting at Glasgow Caledonian University this morning about college\/university links. Anne Russell<\/b> is leading a project that aims to improve the links between colleges and universities in the Glasgow area. Representatives of universities and colleges attended. The project is funded – by the Funding Council – until July 2011.<\/p>\n

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It was a productive meeting. We identified some of the issues facing students who move from college to university, issues such as self-confidence, critical thinking skills, independent learning, and examination technique.<\/p>\n

One of the ideas to come out of the meeting was to develop an HN unit expressly for this purpose — to teach college students the essential skills required for surviving in university. This unit would focus on soft skills, such as presentation skills, self-confidence, and essay writing skills that are essential at university. I offered to liaise with the QDT for the HN Computing review to see if such a unit could be included in the new HN qualifications. If it’s felt that a unit like this would be beneficial, Anne thought it could be produced pretty quickly (by April of next year).<\/p>\n

I’d be interested to know your thoughts of including a unit like this in the new awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I attended a meeting at Glasgow Caledonian University this morning about college\/university links. Anne Russell is leading a project that aims to improve the links between colleges and universities in the Glasgow area. Representatives of universities and colleges attended. The project is funded – by the Funding Council – until July 2011. It was a productive meeting. We identified some of the issues facing students who move from college to university, issues such as self-confidence, critical thinking skills, independent learning, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}