{"id":545,"date":"2026-06-05T09:20:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/businessadminfinance\/?p=545"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:20:46","slug":"nextgen-hn-accounting-and-community-of-practice-launch-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/businessadminfinance\/2026\/06\/05\/nextgen-hn-accounting-and-community-of-practice-launch-event\/","title":{"rendered":"NextGen: HN Accounting and Community of Practice Launch Event"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>This online event took place on Wednesday 27 May and successfully launched the new NextGen: HN Accounting HNC, HND, and PDAs.<br \/><br \/>We introduced the design principles and aims of the qualification review as well as the frameworks and unit content of the new qualifications. Two of our pilot centres shared their experience of delivering the new qualifications. <br \/>We also discussed:<br \/>\u2022 Grading, Meta-skills, and Learning for Sustainability.<br \/>\u2022 Professional body exemptions attached to the new qualifications.<br \/>\u2022 Qualification verification activity good practice and assessment methods.<br \/><br \/>We also launched the community of practice, a collaborative forum to share experiences, materials and assessments, which will support qualification delivery. If you\u2019re interested in joining the community of practice, please email John Elliott &#8211; john.elliott@ext.qualifications.gov.scot<br \/><br \/>The presentation from the event and the course documents are available from the NextGen: HN course documents page on our website, under the \u2018Accounting\u2019 expandable tab https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/110487.html <\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This online event took place on Wednesday 27 May and successfully launched the new NextGen: HN Accounting HNC, HND, and PDAs. We introduced the design principles and aims of the qualification review as well as the frameworks and unit content of the new qualifications. Two of our pilot centres shared their experience of delivering the new qualifications. We also discussed:\u2022 Grading, Meta-skills, and Learning for Sustainability.\u2022 Professional body exemptions attached to the new qualifications.\u2022 Qualification verification activity good practice and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/businessadminfinance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/businessadminfinance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/businessadminfinance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/businessadminfinance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/businessadminfinance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/businessadminfinance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/businessadminfinance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/businessadminfinance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/businessadminfinance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/businessadminfinance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}