Technology Industry Advisory Board
The Technology Industry Advisory Board (TIAB) is a Scottish Government/SQA committee that looks at the best ways for education to meet the needs of industry. Members are drawn from organisations across Scotland. I attended a meeting today to discuss the qualification development process.The Board wanted to know if there was anything it could do to improve the process.
It was a good, positive meeting. I explained the strengths and weaknesses of the current process. The strengths include the robust procedures in place, the various checkpoints to assure quality, and pointed out that the process works reasonably well. The weaknesses include the time it can sometimes take to develop qualifications (sometimes as much as a couple of years) and the difficulty in getting (and keeping) employers involved.
As a result of the meeting, it’s unlikely that the process itself will change but there may be incentives that SQA can offer to encourage employers to get involved in qualification development. The TIAB plans to take this forward.
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