What ugly mugshots especially with the beard

This page tells you wee bit about me. It is not compulsory reading. I worked at Scottish Further Education Unit from 1999 to Oct 2003 in various consultancy roles and I am currently a Business Manager at the Scottish Qualifications Authority.

Prior to this I worked for 14 years in an FE College in various teaching and latterly managing capacities. A brief outline appears below.

I have been very fortunate in the people and organisations I have worked with. They have all shared an interest in humanity and how we learn.

Something like this is really important if you are going to tutor on line. It prevents students thinking of you as some kind of programmed marking robot.

Contents

• Employee Information
• Contact Information
• Current Projects
• Biographical Information
• Personal Interests
• Family Photo Album
• latest Molly Jean Photo
• Hawaii 2004
• China 2004
• new arrival

Employee Information

1. Job title
   Business Manager Scottish Qualifications Authority
2. Key responsibilities
   Managing and maintaining HN and SVQ curriculum in Business , Admin, Travel and Tourism and Computing in Scotland
3. Department or workgroup
   HN and SVQ Business and IT Team
4. Teaching Areas - Marketing/ Market Research / General Management Theory/ English/ Communications/ Media Studies/ History/ Law and the Communications Industry/ I have worked in Further Education for 17 years . Latterly with SFEU I developed workshops and online materials around online learning.

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Contact Information

Electronic mail address
joecar@joecar.demon.co.uk Home adress
Joe.Wilson@sqa.org.uk Work
Web Site Addresses

www.sqa.org.uk
www.sfeu.ac.uk

www.scotfeict.ac.uk
www.cardonald.ac.uk
www.joecar.demon.co.uk

Office phone

Office Fax

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Current Projects

• Working with microsoft to integrate microsoft curriculum materials with SQA courses
• Working with Scottish Further Education Unit, COLEG and the Scottish JISC Regional support centres to map resources on to SQA curriclum and create a bank of online assessment materials for Scottish FE Colleges
• Managing redesign of Scottish HNC and HND frameworks
• Managing updating of SVQ portfolio
• Sit on JCIE in UK
• Executive of ALT from 2000-2003
• Always interested in developing more online programmes for teachers and lecturers and how we change the learning paradigm.

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Biographical Information

Glasgow University
MA (Hons) English and History 1981-85

Jordanhill College of Education
PGCSE 1985-86 English and History

Glasgow University
Dip.Ed 1985-86

Strathclyde University
MBA 1987-1991

Cardonald College
1986- 1999 latterly as Section Leader General Education Division

Scottish Further Education Unit
1999-2003 Development Manager

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Personal Interests

Play Rugby H/A RFC

To hone my keen leadership skills I have captained teams of the highest quality across most of Scotland, Ireland, France and Canada. We win mostly. I am getting a bit old for this but I still thrive on team sports. I know all the words to the songs now too.

 Play Guitar

I am awful but I like it.

Canoe

Wild wide open spaces have always attracted me. I have them between the few teeth I have left. A Qualified Canoe instructor I like a week a year paddling

Eating, Drinking, Travelling, Cinema, Theatre, and Reading

I try to do a lot of these, but not all at the same time. My ideal night would consist of all of the above. This is my ambition

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