Web pages have now been set up on SQA website for the National Certificates at SCQF level 6 in Computer Games: Creative Development http://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/65991.html and Computer Games: Software Development http://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/65994.html The Group Award Specification (previously called the Arrangements document) covers both awards and contains useful information if you are planning to offer them from August 2013. The following Assessment Support Packs for new Units in these awards have been recently published and are available on SQA secure site from your centre’s SQA coordinator: H1ND 12 Artificial Intelligence for GamesH2X1 12…
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The Group Award Specifications (previously called Arrangements Documents) are now available for download on the SQA website. To access GG7D 16 – HND Computer Science click here To access GG7E 16 – HND Computing: Software Development click here To access GG7F 16 – HND Computing: Technical Support click here To access GG7F 16 – HND Computing: Networking click here My previous blog entry gave some information on the support materials that are either in the process of being developed or…
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The Qualification Review Team (QRT) for Computing met this morning for the fourth time. As previously noted, the aim of the QRT is to devise alternative assessments that are better suited to students who plan to go on to university. The purpose of today’s meeting was to look over the draft assessment designs. Two members of the QRT were tasked with producing detailed designs for the alternative assessments. These designs were not actual assessments but they do define what such…
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I recently wrote a letter to update centres about the new and revised HND awards. The letter is on its way to centres now. It contains important information about award codes and the approval process for centres. You can download it here. The letter formally introduces the new HND in Computer Science, which is available to centres now. It also provides further details about the forthcoming launch event, which will be held on 19 June. There is still time to register.…
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This blog recently passed the 100,000 views milestone. In fact, it has had a lot more than 100,000 views since it was started in 2004 but the counter was reset a few years ago during one of the site’s re-designs. The site gets around 100 hits a day (for example, it had 2800 visits in April) so it has become an important communication channel between SQA and centres. We use two other social media tools to communicate with centres. We’ve…
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We are officially launching the following HNC/D Computing awards on Wednesday 19th June 2013 at 1000-1530 hours in the Jury’s Inn, 80 Jamaica Street, Glasgow:HNC Computing (GE3F 15)HND Computer Science (GG7D 16)HND Computing: Networking (GG7C 16)HND Computing: Software Development (GG7E 16)HND Computing: Technical Support (GG7F 16)We are busy organising this event and hope to have a range of items for presentation and discussion.To register, please click on the URL below:http://hncdcomputinglaunch.eventbrite.com/As places are limited, please ensure you book early to secure your registration.A…
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The British Computer Society (BCS) is one of a number of national and international IT bodies that SQA works with. Readers of this blog will know that we recently formalised our relationship with BCS through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). An MoU is a high level agreement so we have to turn that into real action. That process began yesterday, when me and my team attended a BCS event in Glasgow, and continued this morning with a private meeting in…
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I am currently operationalising the following HND Computing awards and awaiting the Group Award Codes for each of these: HND Computer Science HND Computing: Networking HND Computing: Software Development HND Computing: Technical Support As soon as the award codes are received and added to the Group Award Specifications (formally Arrangements Document) these will be published to the website and a link will be posted on the blog to each of the documents. In the meantime, if you have any queries…
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The new HNC/D Computing awards are heavily support by a number of Assessment Support Packs (ASPs) as well as e-Learning materials for the mandatory units within the HNC Computing award. Over the last year we have developed a large number of packs that cover a selection of mandatory and optional units in the revised HNC/D awards. The following ASPs are our Phase 1 developments – published ASPs are available on the SQA secure website (access via your SQA centre co-ordinator): Computer…
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As you may know a Qualification Design Team has been set up to carry out a revision of PC Passport at SCQF levels 4, 5 and 6. The QDT has proposed a new structure and Outcomes for the new awards and we are in the process of consulting with practitioners and stakeholders in the sector to find out what they think of the proposals. If you wish to have a say in how the new qualifications are shaped please help by completing the…
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