Human Skills and AI: Information Session for Scotland's Newest SCQF-Accredited Unit
Description
AI is reshaping every industry — but the skills that allow people to work alongside it, lead through it, and critically engage with it are profoundly human. Communication, collaboration, ethical reasoning, creativity, resilience: these are not soft skills. They are the most in-demand, least replaceable capabilities in today's workforce.
Developed by NomadAlba Collective, Code Division, and Edinburgh College, Human Skills and AI is a new 40-hour SCQF-accredited unit (Levels 5 and 6) purpose-built for secondary and college settings. It equips learners to understand, interrogate, and work responsibly with AI — while deepening the human capabilities that no algorithm can replicate.
This free one-hour session will walk you through everything you need to know — and give you a clear route to making it part of your curriculum.
What you will leave with:
A clear understanding of what the unit covers, how it is structured, and what learner progression looks like at SCQF Levels 5 and 6 under Qualifications Scotland (with guidance for mapping to RQF and International frameworks).
Confidence in how it maps to existing curriculum frameworks across subject areas — from business and technology to health and humanities — and Practical insights into delivery, integration and assessment
An introduction to the licensing, train-the-trainer, co-design pathways available to your setting and the opportunity to register your interest in delivering the unit — with dedicated follow-up from the Future Skills Pathways consortium
This session is for you if you are a:
Secondary school teacher
Curriculum lead or principal teacher
DYW coordinator
College lecturer
College curriculum lead
College curriculum manager
No prior knowledge of AI is required. This session is designed to be accessible, practical, and directly relevant to your professional context — whatever subject you teach.
Your hosts:
Bianca Peel: Founder and Director, NomadAlba Collective Ltd - Holistic learning designer, educationalist, and HundrED SEL Education Ambassador with expertise in human skills, trauma-informed pedagogy, and accredited learning design.
Frank Duffy: Founder, Code Division - Digital skills specialist and co-developer of the Human Skills and AI unit, bringing industry expertise and practical insight into AI literacy and workforce readiness.
David Hiddleston: Curriculum Team Manager, Edinburgh College - Curriculum leader at one of Scotland's largest further education institutions, with direct experience in SCQF accreditation and unit implementation at scale.
Three ways to bring this unit into your setting:
Licence to deliver: Use the ready-made unit in your existing timetable or programme
Train the trainer: Upskill your own staff to deliver with confidence and ongoing support
Co-design: Work with our consortium to contextualise the unit for your sector or learner group
Ready to be part of this?
Register your free place now.
Spaces are limited.
Attendees who register interest at the session will receive priority follow-up from the team.
This unit is delivered in partnership by NomadAlba Collective, Code Division, and Edinburgh Collegeand.
SCQF accreditation is held through Edinburgh College.
Lineup
Bianca Peel: Founder and Director, NomadAlba Collective
Founder and Director, NomadAlba Collective - a Scottish social enterprise working at the intersection of human skills development, trauma-informed wellbeing, and community wealth building. "Hi I'm Bianca. My career spans English language teaching, leadership and teacher education, Montessori teaching and leadership. As a solopreneur I've contributed to global STEAM and sustainability learning design, and most recently become a Master Practitioner in Holistic Art Therapy. I have served as Sustainability Learning Advisor for The Ocean Race and SEL and Human Skills External Expert for Future Focus 21c, and I am a co-founder of the Future Skills Pathways consortium. My passion for education and life long learning encompassed a collection of qualifications in the field of educationand holistic practices. I also serve on international platforms including being a HundrED.org SEL Education Ambassador and Advisory Board Member and a UN CSW69 Delegate. Bringing decades of practice rooted in equity, empathy, and a deep belief in the transformative power of human skills. There is nothing soft about the essentials. Born in to a rich tapestry of culture, South African to Scottish and Irish parents, I have lived and worked across Europe, the USA, and Australia before finding home in Helensburgh, Scotland."
Frank Duffy: Founder, Code Division
Frank Duffy has spent over 20 years teaching programming and technology — in schools, colleges, and universities — and one question has followed him throughout: why do the same people always get left behind? That question led him to found Code Division, a Scottish social enterprise and Qualifications Scotland awarding body that has supported over 1,000 learners across six years. Most of them are women. Many are refugees. A significant number come from minority ethnic communities. Almost all had been failed or overlooked by the mainstream skills system before they walked through Code Division's door. "Hi I'm Frank. I've worked at every level of qualification design — from individual SQA programming units to a full MA programme for New College Lanarkshire and the work-based learning strand of the Graduate Apprentice Software Development programme at the University of Strathclyde. He has contributed to frameworks and units with SQA and Qualifications Scotland that are now used by centres across the country, including the very units that underpin Code Division's own Python and data programmes. Yet what really drives me is simpler than any of that. I believe that experience is knowledge, that practical skills deserve proper recognition, and that a qualification framework should be a ladder — not a wall." Frank is funny, direct, occasionally opinionated, and genuinely passionate about the people he works with. Come along and hear why he thinks the skills system needs to do better — and what that actually looks like in practice.
David Hiddleston: Curriculum Team Manager, Edinburgh College
Curriculum leader at one of Scotland's largest further education institutions, with direct experience in SCQF accreditation and unit implementation at scale.
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