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January 6, 2022

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone! The team returned to work on Wednesday to start what should be an exciting year. My look back at 2021 covered what we did last year. This year we will be finishing off some of the developments that we started last year and commencing some new work. We’re still finalising some units from the first phase of Next Gen HN (not many – most are now validated) and there was a delay to the new…

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January 6, 2022

Hello

Hello everyone, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself… My name is Amy Blain and I joined SQA in 2017. My previous role was an Administrator in the Information Governance team within the Strategic Planning and Governance directorate. I’ve joined the Computing team as a Qualifications Officer, covering for Helen Zhang who is currently working as a Qualifications Coordinator. I am responsible for the advanced qualifications within the portfolio, such as HNs and PDAs. This will be…

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January 5, 2022

NPA Esports

I’m pleased to let you know that we’ll be developing a new suite of qualifications in esports. The qualification will be a National Progression Award (NPA), which will be developed at three levels: SCQF Levels 4, 5 and 6 (National 4, National 5 and Higher). Esports is growing in popularity and I hope the new qualification captures some of the excitement around the subject. We will create a Qualification Development Team (QDT) during January and formally commence development in February.…

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December 21, 2021

Review of 2021

The big change this year has been changes in the team. Emma got a new job in February and was replaced by Megan in April. Helen was promoted in October and replaced by Amy in December. So the team going into 2022 will be me, Amy and Megan. Amy will introduce herself when she formally commences on 5 January. The year commenced and ended with the modernisation of Higher National Qualifications (“Next Gen HN”). In early January I provided an…

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December 20, 2021

Next Gen update

I posted an update about Next Gen HN last month. At that time, I wasn’t sure which (if any) additional Computing qualifications would be developed as part of this initiative. I’m pleased to let you know that all of the proposed qualifications will be developed next year. This means that the following qualifications will be modernised. HNC Computing HND Data Science HND Computer Science HND Networking & Infrastructure HND Software Development. Regular readers will know that we’re going to pilot…

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