{"id":11,"date":"2022-02-09T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/nextgenhn\/?p=11"},"modified":"2024-07-19T13:44:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T13:44:39","slug":"sqa-nextgen-hn-webinar-series-meta-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/HN100\/2022\/02\/09\/sqa-nextgen-hn-webinar-series-meta-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"NextGen: HN webinar series \u2013 meta-skills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Campos, New Product Development Manager, focus\u2019 on the first in the series of NextGen: HN webinars which covered key aspects of the NextGen: HN project. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Every year, learners across Scotland enhance their career and education prospects by undertaking a Higher National Certificate (HNC) or a Higher National Diploma (HND).<\/p>\n

The skills required by industry have changed considerably in recent years and to ensure HNCs and HNDs evolve to meet these requirements, SQA launched the NextGen: HN programme.<\/p>\n

Skills for the modern workplace<\/h2>\n

SQA is designing the next generation of HNCs and HNDs in partnership with industry, colleges, sector skill bodies, and other stakeholders, to ensure learners acquire and develop the meta-skills, knowledge, and experience needed to succeed in the modern workplace.<\/p>\n

Meta-skills include self-management, social intelligence, and innovation, and reflect the professional practices and behaviours expected in industry today.<\/p>\n

How these skills are being embedded into the new qualifications was the theme of the first in a series of six SQA webinars which will cover key aspects of the NextGen: HN project.<\/p>\n

NextGen: HN meta-skills webinar<\/h2>\n

Titled \u2018Meta-skills: the journey so far\u2019, the virtual event was attended by over 120 delegates representing the FE sector, employers, and training providers.<\/p>\n

Valerie Innes, Head of Next Generation Qualifications and Standards at SQA, welcomed delegates to the webinar and introduced Lee-Anne Murray, Policy and Research Manager at SQA, who is leading the meta-skills work strand for HN and NextGen: HN qualifications.<\/p>\n

Lee-Anne provided background information on the meta-skills model being used in the new qualifications, explaining that it was developed by Skills Development Scotland (SDS) and the Centre for Work-based Learning Scotland.<\/p>\n

These are described in the paper Skills 4.0: a skills model to drive Scotland\u2019s future<\/a>, in which meta-skills have been grouped under three headings: self-management; social intelligence and; innovation.<\/p>\n

The NextGen: HN approach is currently being piloted at New College Lanarkshire, where the new HNC Television is being rolled-out. Delegates heard from course leader Alan Moffat, who shared his experience of delivering and assessing meta-skills and described how the process had been embraced by his students.<\/p>\n

Upcoming webinars<\/h2>\n

The NextGen: HN webinar series runs from January to June 2022. The dates and themes of upcoming webinars are listed below.<\/p>\n