Senior External Verifier for Computing

I mentioned a few months ago that Gillian Leitch (West College) was about to become Senior External Verifier (SEV) for Computing, which covers three verification groups: (1) Computer Science; (2) Digital Literacy; and (3) Information Technology. Gillian formally takes over from David Drennan on 1 August. Gillian has been an External Verifier for a long time so this is a natural progression for her. She is widely respected in the Computing community. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank…

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Central verification of HNC examinations

The central verification for the HNC Computing Graded Unit (Examination) takes place today. The Senior External Verifier (David Drennan) and his team are in the building looking over hundreds of exam papers and scripts to ensure that they meet the national standard. I visited the team at lunchtime to see how things are going. They’re going well. David told me that the standards were good and that, so far, there were no serious issues. We had an interesting discussion about permitting…

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