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Administration and IT

Administration & IT

Young people develop skills in IT, problem-solving, organising, and managing information. They select IT applications to create and edit business documents, gather and share information, and develop skills to communicate information.

National 4, National 5 and Higher

Both National 4 and National 5

Students will study the following:

ADMINISTRATION THOERY IN THE WORKPLACE

  • tasks (duties) of administrators
  • skills/qualities of administrators
  • customer service: features, benefits and consequences
  • health and safety: features of current legislation and organisational responsibilities
  • security of people, property and information: organisational responsibilities and features of current legislation

IT APPLICATIONS

  • Word processing
  • Spreadsheets
  • Databases
  • Presentations
  • Electronic communications

 

ADDED VALUE UNIT: ADDED VALUE PROJECT/ASSIGNMENT

Learners will extend and apply their knowledge and skills through research of the units at National 4.  Learners will undertake practical administration and IT based tasks to organise and support a small scale event.

National 4 learners must have previously been successful at Level 3 and, if successful, can possibly progress onto National 5 (S5) and then Higher (S6)

National 5 learners must have previously been successful at Level 4 or 5 and, if successful, can possibly progress onto Higher (S5) and then Advanced Higher (S6)

  • Continuous class and homework assessment
  • Successful completion of internal assessments – April
  • Completed Added Value Project
  • No final SQA examination
  • Continuous class and homework assessment
  • Successful completion of internal unit assessments - April
  • Completion of an SQA internally assessed component.
  • SQA Course Examination
  • Administration assistant
  • IT office worker
  • IT security
  • IT user assistant / manager
  • IT support / operator

Every modern office would require someone with an Administration and IT qualification

All course descriptions from National 4 to Higher are available here - https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/45686.html              Twitter: @STMtechnologies