Author: Brian Clark

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Glasgow Caledonian University: Upskilling Short Courses

GCU is offering around 250 fully-funded places on individual modules or short courses to help fill a skills gap in the Scottish economy.

The upskilling scholarship opportunities are designed to further develop the knowledge of those working in or seeking to enter, the financial services industry, cyber security, data, renewable energy and virology.

Candidates will become registered GCU students and will work towards achieving modules with portable academic credit via online study.

Supported by the Scottish Funding Council and the National Transition Training Fund, the upskilling scholarships are available to anyone over 24 who is resident in Scotland.

For more information and to view the full range of opportunities, access the links in the comments below.

 

Upskilling Short Course Links

AI Machine Learning short course scholarship

https://www.gcu.ac.uk/study/aimachinelearningscholarship/

 

Bank Operational Risk Management CPD Scholarship

https://www.gcu.ac.uk/study/bankoperationalriskmanagementcpdscholarship/

 

Climate Change and Carbon Management CPD Scholarship

https://www.gcu.ac.uk/study/climatechangeandcarbonmanagementscholarship/

 

Cyber Security Short Course Scholarship

https://www.gcu.ac.uk/study/cybersecurityscholarship/

 

Data Analytics and AI Machine Learning CPD Scholarship

https://www.gcu.ac.uk/study/dataanalyticsandaimachinelearningcpd/

 

Data Science Short Course Scholarship

https://www.gcu.ac.uk/study/datasciencescholarship/

 

Distributed Instrumentation Maintenance Aware Design

https://www.gcu.ac.uk/study/maintenanceawaredesignscholarship/

 

Financial Risk Modelling

https://www.gcu.ac.uk/study/financialriskmodellingscholarship/

 

Financial Services Regulations CPD Scholarship

https://www.gcu.ac.uk/study/financialservicesregulationscpdscholarship/

 

Renewable Energy Technologies CPD Scholarship

https://www.gcu.ac.uk/study/renewableenergytechnologiescpdscholarship/

 

Virology Short Course Scholarship

https://www.gcu.ac.uk/study/virologyscholarship/

 

DIAGNOSTIC QUESTIONS FOR COMPUTING SCIENCE

There is a bank of diagnostic questions to support SQA Computing Science qualifications, as well as other qualifications and subjects at https://diagnosticquestions.com/

To find questions aligned to SQA content, select SQAComputingScience in the Author filter drop down.  You can refine questions further by selecting topics.

 

There is the ability to add your school and create classes to track and monitor progress.

 

Questions have plausible distractors and learners are asked to explain why they chose that particular answer.

Example Question and distractors

 

Learner response options

Visit DiagnosticQuestions

 

 

SQA ACADEMY – CLPL IN HTML/CSS/JA & SQL

This is a self paced course aimed at develop teacher skills and understanding to support delivery of Computing Science National Qualifications.There are a range of interactive learning resources developed by subject specialists to support teachers delivering Computing Science at National 5 and Higher. They are topic-based and cover a range of programming areas – HTML, CSS, JavaScript and SQL.

Visit SQA Academy

There are also a number of videos within the courses that illustrate how these technologies are used in industry that you may find useful to show learners. For example, how SkyScanner use SQL

To access the learning materials, you must create an account with SQA Academy.

Note: You will need to allow pop ups for SQA Academy to access the courses