Unit writing training for PDA Software Development
The training for unit writers involved in the new PDA in Software Development took place on Friday in Glasgow. We’re developing nine new HN Units in total: Software Development: Analysis & Design, Software Development: Implementation & Testing, and Software Development: Project. Each Unit is a double credit Unit and is repeated in each of the three levels (SCQF Levels 7, 8 and 9).
The team is a mix of the very experienced, the less experienced and the new. It was a good event with lots of discussion about the nuances of unit writing. The unit briefs have been produced so it’s now a case of putting principles into practice and producing the unit specifications.
This new award aims to produce job-ready programmers to address the skills gap in this area. There has been a great deal of interest in it so it’s important that we get the Units as “right” as we can. The new PDAs will be available to centres from February 2016. You can find out more about the qualification by contacting Helen.
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