Action on digital skills
I attended an event organised by Scotland IS yesterday, entitled: “Action on digital skills in Scotland”. It was held in the beautiful Surgeon’s Hall Museum in Edinburgh. The event was opened by Polly Purvis, the CEO of Scotland IS.
The speakers (who included the Minister for Employability & Training) were very good. They all emphasised the vital importance of digital skills to the Scottish economy. The following skills were highlighted:
- software development
- cyber security
- data analytics
- artificial intelligence
- computational thinking.
We have qualifications in all of these areas. We recently developed a suite of PDAs in Software Development (in addition to the existing HND); our cyber security qualifications are well known; we recently developed a new HNC in Data Analytics; and we’re currently devising an HN unit called Artificial Intelligence. Computational thinking is embedded in all of these awards.
I was delighted when one of the speakers praised SQA’s qualifications. He said that he was surprised when he “realised that all of these vital skills are there” [in the portfolio].
Please contact Emma for information and advice about non-advanced awards and contact Helen about advanced awards.
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