In 2013 the UK government announced details of significant changes to the UK national curriculum which will come into force from September 2014. These changes included a shift of focus from traditional IT teaching to a new computing curriculum, designed to encompass a wider range of digital literacy aspects.
In preparation for September’s upcoming curriculum changes NCC Education has launched a new set of computing qualifications. Launched on 01 January 2014, the Digi-Qualifications cover Key Stage 1, 2 and 3 of the computing curriculum.
The three progressively staged Digi-Qualifications cover the entire new curriculum: introducing key concepts of Digital Citizenship and e-Safety, writing and testing programs, and the application of logical reasoning in computing. Consisting of Digi-Explorers, Digi-Navigators and Digi-Trailblazers the qualifications’ curricula have been designed specifically to support the introduction of a ‘fourth science’ to pupils at a young age. All three qualifications centre around transforming the perhaps daunting prospect of algorithms, programming languages and Boolean logic into something that is both easy to learn and fun to teach.
Qualifications at a glance:
| Digi-Explorers |
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| Digi-Navigators |
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| Digi-Trailblazers |
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NCC Education has drawn on 37 years of specialist experience in delivering and awarding IT qualifications to design this new set of Digi-Qualifications so that they accurately match the requirements of the new curriculum, and can be taught suitably by primary and secondary teachers with or without IT and computing teaching experience.
Digi-Qualifications can be studied by children or adult learners and offer the opportunity for clear and measurable progression through a wide range of digital literacy areas.
For more information visit our dedicated Digi-Qualifications page.