Update

I attended the last meeting of the Scottish Baccalaureate Design Team at the end of January. The team looked at the proposed Assessment Support Pack for the Interdisciplinary project. There was a great deal of discussion and constuctive feedback. I have been asked to do some work on the generic skills which are a very important part of the project and also to help at the launch event in the Spring. It will be very interesting to see how many early adopters there will be for the qualification in its first year (2009 - 2010). I am trying to find out how many Colleges will be delivering either alone or in conjunction with a school or schools.
Unfortunately the training events for the ESOL for Work units apart from the Glasgow one were cancelled. This was really disappointing. I had registered for the Edinburgh event but SQA have said they will send out packs to all people who are interested. I think there is difficulty at the moment for people to get release from college. In my own department there are cutbacks on staff development in anticipation of the current financial situation getting worse.
It's great to see so many Gaelic colleagues registering for Practitioners Plus - I really hope they will find this a useful means of communication and sharing.
I am in the process of setting up an online resource sharing repository through COLEG for Languages, ESOL and Gaelic. It may take a while to get it established but I am hopeful that this will something colleagues will find useful.