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February 25, 2025

Re-organisation of the team

Regular readers will know that Emma and Helen returned to the team after Christmas. Emma has responsibility for non-advanced qualifications (NUs, NPAs, NCs) and CBQs, and Helen advanced qualifications (HNUs, HNC, HND, PDA). We’re going to re-organise things within the team so that each Qualifications Officer (QO) has responsibility for a specific field within computing, rather than levels of qualifications. So, for example, Emma will be the lead officer for all qualifications relating to computer science and computer games; Helen…

Categories: Computing

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February 19, 2025

Change to HND Computing: Software Development (GG7E 16)

The framework of the HND Computing: Software Development (GG7E 16) has been amended following a change request submitted by a delivering centre. The change request related to the addition of Machine Learning (J1BB 35) to the framework as an optional unit. Upon consideration by the Qualification Support Team (QST), the change request was approved on 24 January 2025. Consequently, the unit Machine Learning (J1BB 35) has been added to Group 2 of the optional units of the HND Computing: Software…

Categories: Computing, HN, Qualifications, Software development

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February 10, 2025

Contacting the team

Regular readers will know that Emma and Helen returned to the vocational Computing team in January (they had been seconded to the Next Gen team). Emma is the lead officer for non-advanced qualifications (NPAs and NCs) and CBQs, and Helen is the lead officer for advanced qualifications (HNQs and PDAs). I’m sure that you already know our email addresses but, in case you don’t, we can be contacted here: bobby.elliott@sqa.org.uk emma. campos@sqa.org.uk helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk. There’s also a general mailbox at computing@sqa.org.uk…

Categories: Computing

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January 31, 2025

Next Gen update

It’s been a while since I posted an update about Next Gen. Regular readers will know that Next Gen is an initiative to modernise Higher National Qualifications (HNQs) that has been on-going since 2020. Computing has figured prominently in Next Gen. Five HNQs were developed during the first phase: HNC Computing. HND Computer Science. HND Data Science. HND Networking & Cloud Infrastructure. HND Software Development. One of the features of Next Gen is that qualifications are piloted, and there were…

Categories: Computing

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January 16, 2025

Qualification proposals

Centres are encouraged to propose new or revised qualifications if you think there’s a gap in provision or would like to change an existing qualification. We’re also happy to receive feedback on support materials (or receive suggestions for new support materials). The standard process is to use the DAVAL2 form, which can be downloaded here. But we’d prefer if you used our online form (since we convert the DAVAL2 to this so it saves time if you enter it directly).…

Categories: Computing

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