DYW Glasgow
Dr Nicola Crawford, Programme Director, Developing the Young Workforce Glasgow
Developing the Young Workforce Glasgow
Glasgow’s leading position in Developing the Young Workforce will continue and move to build ‘meta-skills’, says Dr Nicola Crawford
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escribing her new role as Programme Director of DYW Glasgow, Dr Nicola Crawford said: “It is a complete gear- change building on the
magnificent work that has already been done by DYW. "It is about refining the focus of what
DYW has been doing in the city. We need to utilise the research and the strong connections which the DYW Glasgow team has established.” She has been putting in place new
processes to ensure the continuity and consistency of the DYW’s compact team in Glasgow.
“A huge amount of industry
engagement took place over the summer period. It is always amazing to find out about the new initiatives organisations are working on.” Dr Crawford studied chemistry and IT at Glasgow Caledonian University and then took her PhD at the University of Strathclyde. She started teaching computing at what was Central College in Glasgow while undertaking her doctorate, spending 21 years in the further education sector – an experience she has loved.
In 2005, when she was a Senior Lecturer in Computing, she experienced many prospective students being unable to join the courses and felt that
students needed new pathways to reach their ambitions. She created new courses from Level 4 up to Level 6 which allowed people with no qualifications to enter this emerging sector. “Having a fantastic cross-college
We are digging deeper now in the relationship between industry and education, influencing the curriculum to meet skills"
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team meant the computing curriculum included sports, psychology, life skills and individual guidance. This made a huge difference – this wasn’t mainstream at the time – and it became a pathway allowing more young people into education.” Nicola moved to the Nautical Campus at City of Glasgow College as a Maths Lecturer and was promoted to become the first female non-seafaring Faculty Director of Nautical Studies at the college. She was responsible for transformational cultural change at the college, helping to build its reputation as one of the leading places of learning in the world with students and active seafarers from all around the globe. “This role was primarily about bringing together the navigators and the engineers and working towards a common vision. This included bringing in experts in other areas to complement the curriculum and responding to
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