The Qualification Development Team (QDT) for the second phase of Next Gen HN Computing met for the first time yesterday. Nineteen members attended the online meeting, representing colleges, universities and employers. As many of you will know,  QDTs are responsible for developing new qualifications. The first meeting was more information-giving than qualification-developing since I had to bring members up-to-date with what we did in the first phase (HNC Computing and HND Data Science) and what we’ve got to do in…

The Next Gen core team have been working on a new HN Next Gen website. The new site is user-friendly and easy to navigate – whether you’re looking for information on meta-skills, upcoming events and webinars, or interested in reading about our pilot centre experiences. The website will be helpful for practitioners to keep up to date with the development as it progresses and as more resources become available. If you have any queries in relation to computing, please contact amy.blain@sqa.org.uk.…

I recently posted about a change to the way we communicate and support centres. I thought that this is a good time to describe the various social media channels we use. Firstly, there’s the SQA website and, more importantly if you teach Computing, the Computing subject page, where you’ll find information about all our qualifications and other important information such as reports from the Senior External Verifier. As previously mentioned, we’re focusing our support for specific qualifications on Yammer, where…