I am grateful to Colin on picking up all the other packages that are available. I had an email last week from a centre who wanted to know which software should be used for video editing at Access SCQF 3 level.

On sorting out – or trying to sort out – national deals on software – we'll look at that perhaps in partnership with other agencies or lead centres – this is not part of our core business. Centres get approval on the basis that they are staffed and resourced to deliver.

In meantime remember there are lots of packages out there that will serve your purposes and licensing should not be used as a barrier to the teaching of cool stuff ;-)