The World Economic Forum (in Davos) looked at future skills and employment trends over the period 2016-2020. The full report can be found here [PDF] and an Executive Summary here [PDF]. It predicts a global reduction in employment (mostly in “routine manual” and “routine cognitive” jobs) but an increase in technology related jobs, particularly data analysts. Technology will pervade all employment by 2020. Cloud computing, mobile technology and the Internet of Things will begin to have significant impact on jobs.…
The College Development Network (CDN) is currently carrying out some research into what colleges offer in the way of vendor certification. The intention is, once this is known, to provide training to lecturers. Lots of vocational Computing qualifications are linked to vendor awards so the offer of free training sounds like a great idea. If you’re interested in participating in this research. Please contact Gerry (of CDN) for more information about this project or contact Hilary for more information about…
As part of their role in developing qualifications, Qualification Development Teams (QDTs) must also carry out research to check that their proposals have broad support across the sector. The QDT for Cyber Security has recently created a survey about their current proposals. You can find it here. It will only take a few minutes to complete. I’d appreciate if you would provide feedback.
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The web log of the qualification team for Computing within SQA. Look out for news about Computing qualifications and related information.
