I’m pleased to let you know that this year’s SVQ Business and Administration Network Events will take place Wednesday, 22nd May at Radisson Blu Hotel in Edinburgh and Thursday, 30th May at Celtic Park, Kerrydale Suite. These events provide assessors and verifiers with a CPD opportunity and the chance to network with peers across the sector. Updates will be provided by the SQA Qualifications Team (Tony and Caitlin) and Senior External Verifier (Donnie Carthew). Discussion and workshops will cover topics such as performance and…
A conference is being held in London in May 2019 to discuss the potential and challenges of AI in the world of banking and financial services. The link takes you to the full conference agenda – Next Gen Banking Conference Agenda.
Tony and I attended a meeting of OneFile users at College Development Network on Thursday, 21st March. SQA External Verifier, Margaret Gibson also attended and provided an update on her experiences of E-portfolios. John Docherty, manager of OneFile gave a presentation outlining features of the package, identifying the benefits and how it can be used in Scotland. Representatives from City of Glasgow and Forth Valley Colleges presented examples of using it within their centres and both spoke very highly of the…
Tony and I met with Senior External Verifier (EV) Donnie Carthew on Saturday in the Glasgow SQA offices. The purpose of the meeting was to refresh the content of the Understanding Standards materials and the Frequently asked questions (FAQ) guidance . A review of the existing content was amended and updates were agreed. The next step is to select recent examples of evidence and re-write content that requires to be updated. We aim to have this work complete by the end…
We are revising the National Certificate in Administration at SCQF level 5, and would appreciate feedback from teachers and lecturers who are delivering the current group award. You can send us your views and comments by completing our online survey. We have extended the deadline and the survey will now be open until Friday 22 March 2019. Thank you to all those that have completed the survey so far.
The Stirling Court Hotel was the venue for this year’s HN Accounting Network Support Event held on Tuesday 5 March. SQA welcomed 25 delegates (some new and some familiar faces) to the Event. Thank you to those who attended and supported another successful event. A special thanks to the HN Accounting practitioners who delivered workshops on marking narrative questions in Graded Units and prior verification – delegates found these very helpful. The presentations on cloud accounting (by a representative from…
This year’s HN Administration and Information Technology Network Event took place on Thursday 21st February. Attended by over 50 delegates, it was a very busy and largely successful day. Themes of the event were Internal Assessment and Digital Delivery. Key updates from SQA included the imminent publication of two paper ASPs for Graded Unit 1 (HH9M 34) to assist centres’ transition to greater use of digital delivery and assessment – and two paper ASPs for the mandatory unit Digital Technologies…
The HN Business Network event was held on Thursday, 28th February at Stirling Court Hotel. It was well attended, with over 30 people in attendance. Thank you to those who attended and supported another successful event. A special thanks to Gail Graham and Lynn Gellatly from Dundee and Angus College who delivered a presentation on co-coordinating and delivering Quality. The key themes of the day were delivering Internal Assessment and the future for HN Business. Janet Strain discussed ways centres…
Welcome to the SQA Blog for HN subjects in Accounting, Administration, Business and Financial Services. The purpose of the blog is to provide updates on the various work, activities and projects relating to the qualifications as they happen; and the opportunity for stakeholders to comment or express interest in being involved in future projects. We hope this will provide a more complete picture of the background and rationale for the design of the qualifications and their support materials in a…
