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Kindness Matters - Mental Health Awareness Week

Sandy MacLean, CDN’s Lead of Curriculum and Teaching, explains why Kindness matters now more than ever......

How Edinburgh College is supporting students - Part 2

Student Wellbeing Adviser Jenni Moreland provides an update on student wellbeing at Edinburgh College....

Ways to deal with Coronavirus Anxiety - Part 2

West College Scotland’s Student Wellbeing Adviser, Kirsty MacEwan, returns with Part 2 of her blog which offers helpful advice on how to d...

Ways to deal with Coronavirus Anxiety

Thanks to West College Scotland’s Student Wellbeing Adviser Kirsty MacEwan who shares her top tips on how to deal with Coronavirus Anxiety...

Sustainability in Learning and Teaching

CDN's Lead of Curriculum and Teaching Suzanne Marshall explains what Scotland's colleges have been doing to demonstrate learning for susta...

Supporting Student Wellbeing during the Coronavirus outbreak

Edinburgh College's Student Wellbeing Adviser Jenni Moreland explains how the college has been supporting students during the Coronavirus c...

CDN and Jisc bring you free Virtual Bridge webinars

CDN's Lead of Digital and Innovation Kenji Lamb tells us about Virtual Bridge, the new webinar series which has been designed to support co...

Beds needed for Coronavirus hospital

You will have heard that the NHS are setting up a temporary hospital in Glasgow SEC to combat the Coronavirus pandemic. Our partners at ...

A Mindful Approach to Coronavirus

CDN's Lead of Curriculum and Teaching Sandy MacLean is also a mindfulness meditation practitioner. In this blog she explains how mindfulne...

CDN Modern Apprentice Jade's latest blog

Diary of A Modern Apprentice - Take 2 It has been just over two months since I started at CDN and about one month since I wrote my last blo...

Creating an award-winning submission: Top Tips

College Awards 2020, delivered by CDN, are now open for entries, and we have provided you with top tips for creating an award-winning submis...

Password Top Tips - Safer Internet Day

Blog by Chelsea Jarvie, Director of CJ Cyber Ltd. Passwords are here, there and everywhere, but they are hard to keep track of and rememb...

Diary of a Modern Apprentice

My first month at CDN Jade Urquhart joined CDN as a Modern Apprentice at the end of 2019. She tells us about her first month... I joined...

#MadeOnAMobile - How to make films using your mobile

Jon Gill from Playful Communications explains how you can use your smart phone to make films… Camera phones – they’re for taking snap...

New device for Christmas? Here's how to keep it secure...

Blog by Chelsea Jarvie, Director of CJ Cyber Ltd. Here are 3 very simple actions you can take to keep your device secure and ultimately, ...

Collaboration is key when developing qualifications

Thanks to SQA for being one of 2019’s CDN College Award Gold sponsors. In this blog, SQA National Manager Caroline Hunter explains why col...

What's your Digital Ambition for Scotland's colleges?

We spoke to Principal of Forth Valley College Dr Ken Thomson OBE ahead of the Digital Ambition Roadshow, which tours Scotland this Autumn. T...

5 good reasons to go paperless in your board room

Thanks to Admincontrol for being one of 2019's CDN College Award Gold sponsors. The company offers a smart and secure collaboration platform...

#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek – How we're supporting teaching staff through professional development

Sandy MacLean, CDN’s Curriculum and Teaching Lead, explores the implications for the sector and its practitioners with an increasing incid...

Scottish Government's Public Sector and Climate Change Consultation

Blog by Suzanne Marshall, Lead - Curriculum and Teaching, CDN Why this Consultation? On 14 May, the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Cli...