{"id":512,"date":"2010-11-11T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/2010\/11\/11\/visiting-centres-3\/"},"modified":"2010-11-11T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T12:22:00","slug":"visiting-centres-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/visiting-centres-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The demands of my job make it difficult to get out and actually visit centres to talk to teachers and students but at the end of last week I managed to visit two colleges that I have previously taught in.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday afternoon I visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clydebank.ac.uk\/\">Clydebank College<\/a>, at the invitation of Graeme Downey, and met several of my ex-colleagues. Graeme, kindly, gave me the chance to talk to students and I had a discussion with a group of NC students and a group of HNC students. It was very interesting to get the students&#8217; perspective on SQA courses. It will come as no surprise to readers of this blog that the amount and type of assessment figured prominently in the students&#8217; feedback.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, I met with ex-colleagues from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stow.ac.uk\/\">Stow College<\/a> and, once again, it was interesting to hear ordinary teachers&#8217; views on SQA qualifications. Ron Dillin had kindly arranged this. I got plenty of feedback on the strengths and weaknesses of our awards.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to get out and meet teachers and students so don&#8217;t hesitate to <a href=\"mailto:bobby.elliott@sqa.org.uk\">contact me<\/a> if you would like me to visit your centre. I can&#8217;t promise to always be available but either myself or Caroline or Hilary will try to accommodate you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demands of my job make it difficult to get out and actually visit centres to talk to teachers and students but at the end of last week I managed to visit two colleges that I have previously taught in. On Thursday afternoon I visited Clydebank College, at the invitation of Graeme Downey, and met several of my ex-colleagues. Graeme, kindly, gave me the chance to talk to students and I had a discussion with a group of NC students&hellip;<\/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\/512"}],"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=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}