{"id":1680,"date":"2016-01-06T14:01:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T14:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2016-01-13T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T11:30:17","slug":"hn-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/hn-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"HN developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of Higher National (HN) awards are currently being reviewed. These are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/hncd-information-technology-update\/\">HNC\/D Information Technology<\/a> (led by Chris Deegan of Glasgow Met.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/hncd-interactive-media-development-update\/\">HNC\/D Interactive Media<\/a> (led by\u00a0Fiona Murnin of New College Lanarkshire)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/hncd-computer-games-developmen\/\">HNC\/D Computer Games Development<\/a> (led by\u00a0Gill Flockart of Ayrshire College).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each development is at a different stage but all are well underway.\u00a0Progress has been slower than I had hoped, mainly as a result of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/welcome-back-10\/\">staff changes<\/a> within SQA. I intend to meet with each of the lead developers in the coming weeks to review progress. As soon as I do I will post an update on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to these reviews, we are also developing two new HNCs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HNC Computer Science<\/li>\n<li>HNC Data Analytics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The QDT has been formed and these developments are <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/hnc-computer-science-hnc-data-analytics\/\">underway<\/a>. I hope to have these new HNCs available to centres in the first half of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk\">contact Helen<\/a> if you have specific queries about any of these developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of Higher National (HN) awards are currently being reviewed. These are: HNC\/D Information Technology (led by Chris Deegan of Glasgow Met.) HNC\/D Interactive Media (led by\u00a0Fiona Murnin of New College Lanarkshire) HNC\/D Computer Games Development (led by\u00a0Gill Flockart of Ayrshire College). Each development is at a different stage but all are well underway.\u00a0Progress has been slower than I had hoped, mainly as a result of staff changes within SQA. I intend to meet with each of the lead&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}