IBM presents at Stirling
Cally Beck, UK Program Manager of the IBM System i Academic Program, visited the SQA Heads of Centre meeting at the Scottish Further Education Unit conference centre in Stirling on 1st February to launch the new SQA IBM partnership activity. The agreement signed between IBM and SQA in January will lead to new units within SQA's Computing and IT awards based on the System i Academic Program. Jim Wilson of Lauder College outlined how the System I course material is being adapted and will feature in the SQA awards.
A train-the-trainer session has been schedule for June and colleges are being asked to express interest in piloting the awards.