Iain Shand (@iainshand3) 's Twitter Profile
Iain Shand

@iainshand3

Curriculum and Quality Leader for Computing at West College Scotland, Paisley Campus. Passionate about vendor certification. All views are my own. #MIEE #MCP

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WorldSkills UK (@worldskillsuk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fantastic to hear from The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, who has welcomed our National Finals and spoken of the importance of our work in supporting the vision for #TechnicalEducation in the city-region. #WSUKFinals2023.

Fantastic to hear from The Mayor of Greater Manchester, <a href="/AndyBurnhamGM/">Andy Burnham</a>, who has welcomed our National Finals and spoken of the importance of our work in supporting the vision for #TechnicalEducation in the city-region. #WSUKFinals2023.
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World Skills National Finals in Manchester is now underway. I’m judging on the IT Support Technician competition. 2 hectic days of competition for competitors and judges! WorldSkills UK WestCollegeScotland #wsukfinals2023

World Skills National Finals in Manchester is now underway. I’m judging on the IT Support Technician competition. 2 hectic days of competition for competitors and judges! <a href="/worldskillsuk/">WorldSkills UK</a> <a href="/WestCollScot/">WestCollegeScotland</a>  #wsukfinals2023
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Teach CYBER SECURITY in a Scottish secondary school? Join our #CyberFirst Team to find out more about the NCSC UK CyberFirst schools programme and award: teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3azW… Scott Hunter Education Scotland CyberScotland

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I’m on my way to the House of Commons to participate in an event entitled ā€œScaling Cyber Education to Secure our Nations Prosperityā€ the CyberFirst programme is the cornerstone of this #CyberFirst IN4 Group WestCollegeScotland

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We, at West College Scotland, are looking for a lecturer in our computing department. A fantastic opportunity to get into teaching. See link below. If anyone has any informal questions, please let me know. Please share hronline.westcollegescotland.ac.uk/tlive_webrecru…

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I’m excited to share that the annual Computing Science Conference is back this year! Open to all early years, primary and secondary teachers involved in computing education takes place in Paisley, Livingstone and Dundee, registration is open now. tickettailor.com/events/computi…

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šŸ“¢ Calling all Computing Teachers Join us for an essential Computing Science Conference - perfect for early years, primary & secondary educators! šŸ“… Sat, Nov 9th šŸ“ Choose from 3 locations across Scotland šŸŽÆ Great for CPD & networking! Book now: buytickets.at/computingscien…

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Excited to be in Scotland today! I’ll be speaking about how Ada Computer Science can support students and teachers. #CompSciConf24 #csweek2024 rpf.io/adasoc24

Excited to be in Scotland today! I’ll be speaking about how Ada Computer Science can support students and teachers. 
 #CompSciConf24 #csweek2024 
rpf.io/adasoc24
Iain Shand (@iainshand3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A great day today at the Computing Science Conference at WestCollegeScotland in Paisley. So much good stuff happening. Teachers don’t get enough time to network, days like these help. A massive thank you to all of our amazing workshop facilitators for helping making today so brilliant!

A great day today at the Computing Science Conference at <a href="/WestCollScot/">WestCollegeScotland</a> in Paisley. So much good stuff happening. Teachers don’t get enough time to network, days like these help. A massive thank you to all of our amazing workshop facilitators for helping making today so brilliant!
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Feeling energised after attending #CompSciConf24 with my inspirational colleagues! Huge thanks to the Ollie Bray for his invaluable insights, and to Craig Steele, Iain Shand, Harriet Page and Gareth Rae who led the informative workshops.

Feeling energised after attending #CompSciConf24 with my inspirational colleagues! Huge thanks to the <a href="/olliebray/">Ollie Bray</a> for his invaluable insights, and to <a href="/craig88/">Craig Steele</a>, <a href="/IainShand3/">Iain Shand</a>, <a href="/HarriPage1/">Harriet Page</a> and Gareth Rae who led the informative workshops.
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World Skills National Finals in Wigan is now underway. I’m judging on the IT Support Technician competition. 2 hectic days of competition for competitors and judges! WorldSkills UK WestCollegeScotland #wsukfinals2024

World Skills National Finals in Wigan is now underway. I’m judging on the IT Support Technician competition. 2 hectic days of competition for competitors and judges! <a href="/worldskillsuk/">WorldSkills UK</a> <a href="/WestCollScot/">WestCollegeScotland</a>  #wsukfinals2024
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Curriculum Improvement Cycle for computing starts today, over 100 attendees made up of teachers, academics and Scottish Government. I’m delivering ā€œwhat is happening and what does it tell us, overview of computing in further educationā€ An interesting morning

Curriculum Improvement Cycle for computing starts today, over 100 attendees made up of teachers, academics and Scottish Government. I’m delivering ā€œwhat is happening and what does it tell us, overview of computing in further educationā€ An interesting morning
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Today was the National Cyber Security Centre’s CyberFirst Knowledge Share. I delivered a session showing the labs and video walkthroughs that I created that allow CyberFirst Advanced to reach a wider audience. #CyberFirst #CyberSecurity. NCSC UK WestCollegeScotland

Today was the National Cyber Security Centre’s CyberFirst Knowledge Share. I delivered a session showing the labs and video walkthroughs that I created that allow CyberFirst Advanced to reach a wider audience. #CyberFirst #CyberSecurity. <a href="/NCSC/">NCSC UK</a> <a href="/WestCollScot/">WestCollegeScotland</a>
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šŸ“¢Cyber Security Business Breakfast. Join us!ā˜• šŸ“… 28 Feb 2025 | šŸ•™ 10 AM | šŸ“ West College Scotland, Paisley Hear from Scottish Gov Cyber Resilience Unit, TryHackMe & more! āœ… Cyber security insights āœ… Networking āœ… Free breakfast ā˜• šŸŽŸļø Sign up nowā¬‡ļø tickettailor.com/events/westcol…

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Incredible morning at West College Scotland! 40+ businesses & schools came together to collaborate, inspired by an insightful keynote from Roz Barrance (ScotlandIS). Great to see new connections forming—excited for what’s ahead! Education Scotland WestCollegeScotland

Incredible morning at West College Scotland! 40+ businesses &amp; schools came together to collaborate, inspired by an insightful keynote from Roz Barrance (ScotlandIS). Great to see new connections forming—excited for what’s ahead!

  <a href="/EducationScot/">Education Scotland</a> <a href="/WestCollScot/">WestCollegeScotland</a>
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Big congratulations to the 13 schools that received their NCSC CyberFirst School award at today’s West College Scotland Business Breakfast Great to see their dedication to cyber education recognised-shaping the next generation of cyber talent! NCSC UK Education Scotland WestCollegeScotland

Big congratulations to the 13 schools that received their NCSC CyberFirst School award at today’s West College Scotland Business Breakfast

Great to see their dedication to cyber education recognised-shaping the next generation of cyber talent!
<a href="/NCSC/">NCSC UK</a> <a href="/EducationScot/">Education Scotland</a> <a href="/WestCollScot/">WestCollegeScotland</a>
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šŸŽ‰ Congrats to the S4–S6 pupils from St Joseph's Academy & Grange Academy who completed the CyberFirst Advanced course over the past two weeks. Everyone passed! Showing such dedication and talent. šŸ‘ Big thanks to Mrs Flanagan & Miss Canning for looking after me!šŸ”šŸ’» #CyberFirst NCSC UK

šŸŽ‰ Congrats to the S4–S6 pupils from <a href="/StJoAcad/">St Joseph's Academy</a> &amp; Grange Academy who completed the CyberFirst Advanced course over the past two weeks.
Everyone passed! Showing such dedication and talent. šŸ‘
Big thanks to <a href="/MrsFlanaganComp/">Mrs Flanagan</a> &amp; Miss Canning for looking after me!šŸ”šŸ’» #CyberFirst <a href="/NCSC/">NCSC UK</a>