Category: NextGen Pilot

  • “In my opinion our use or misuse of resources the last 100 years or so, I’d probably rename that age, something like The Age of ignorance, The Age of Stupid!!!”  Alain DuVerney, The Age of Stupid  2009 The Earth is a mere 4.5 billion years old and in our arrogance, we have failed to see past the…

  • A large part of the new HNC is about capturing how students perform when you put them into a group or team setting. A lot of what we miss is also some of the most important parts of what a student learns – how to negotiate, how to contribute, how to stay focussed, knowing when…

  • So much to cover I don’t where to begin…how about week three. We spent the first two weeks online which actually was a nice way to ease everyone back in to coming back into college. A lot of discussion took place between staff around levels of anxiety and worries about student Health and well-being. A…

  • In early 2020, the Film & TV department put in an application to be part of the NextGen pilot for the HN qualification in TV Production.  The NextGen qualifications have been described as the most radical overhaul of qualifications in Scotland in a hundred years!!! For television, it represents a move away from the one…