We are officially launching the following HNC/D Computing awards on Wednesday 19th June 2013 at 1000-1530 hours in the Jury’s Inn, 80 Jamaica Street, Glasgow:HNC Computing (GE3F 15)HND Computer Science (GG7D 16)HND Computing: Networking (GG7C 16)HND Computing: Software Development (GG7E 16)HND Computing: Technical Support (GG7F 16)We are busy organising this event and hope to have a range of items for presentation and discussion.To register, please click on the URL below:http://hncdcomputinglaunch.eventbrite.com/As places are limited, please ensure you book early to secure your registration.A…
The British Computer Society (BCS) is one of a number of national and international IT bodies that SQA works with. Readers of this blog will know that we recently formalised our relationship with BCS through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). An MoU is a high level agreement so we have to turn that into real action. That process began yesterday, when me and my team attended a BCS event in Glasgow, and continued this morning with a private meeting in…
This will be of interest to schools and colleges – The Oracle Academy is pleased to announce that the Getting Started with Java Using Alice Workshop, V2, which supports Alice 3.1.60 and higher, is now available from the Curriki.org website. Use the following steps to access the materials: 1. Paste the URL listed below to quickly display the workshop materials. http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_TheOracleAcademy/GettingStartedWithJavaUsingAlice Use the following steps to download all of the workshop materials: 1. From the Oracle Academy collections page, open…
I met Martyn Wallace from 02 recently and he highlighted this big educational engagement event in London. I did highlight this would be week most Colleges in Scotland will be busy with induction – but this is an event that many students particularly transitioning from HNC – HND should be interested in . I think some teaching staff will be interested too. As long as they don’t mind sleeping in a tent inside the 02 Arena in London See details…
I am currently operationalising the following HND Computing awards and awaiting the Group Award Codes for each of these: HND Computer Science HND Computing: Networking HND Computing: Software Development HND Computing: Technical Support As soon as the award codes are received and added to the Group Award Specifications (formally Arrangements Document) these will be published to the website and a link will be posted on the blog to each of the documents. In the meantime, if you have any queries…
The new HNC/D Computing awards are heavily support by a number of Assessment Support Packs (ASPs) as well as e-Learning materials for the mandatory units within the HNC Computing award. Over the last year we have developed a large number of packs that cover a selection of mandatory and optional units in the revised HNC/D awards. The following ASPs are our Phase 1 developments – published ASPs are available on the SQA secure website (access via your SQA centre co-ordinator): Computer…
