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August 24, 2018

Freeze on changes to HN Computing awards

Some time ago, I reminded you about the procedure for making small changes to existing qualifications, such as adding a unit to the options.Because we have commenced the HN Review, we will no longer “tweak” the qualifications involved in that development. The review is a root-and-branch look at the suite of awards so it’s not appropriate to continue to tweak awards that were devised six years ago. This means that the review team aren’t reviewing “shifting sands” and have fixed…

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August 23, 2018

New term checks

It’s the time of year when centres begin to deliver our qualifications. There are some checks you should carry out before commencing teaching. We sometimes receive requests for help from centres that have delivered the wrong units. You can avoid that by doing the following. Begin by checking the subject page for any qualification that you’re delivering. The subject page provides all of the information that you need about each qualification — including a link to the Group Award Specification…

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August 17, 2018

HN Review meeting

Regular readers will know that we’ve commenced the review of several Higher National qualifications and that we were looking for people to “scope” the required changes. We got several volunteers and selected four people (all practising lecturers) to lead on each qualification. The “scoping team” met for the first time yesterday in Glasgow. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the process for scoping qualifications and to agree tasks and timescales. It was a good meeting. The first stage…

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August 14, 2018

Welcome back

The team would like to welcome back teachers and lecturers to a new term. The team has had a busy summer. The HN Review commenced at the end of June, HNC Cyber Security was validated in early July and made it available to centres later than month, we commenced the development of new qualifications in data science, started work on HND Cyber Security, published the support materials for cyber security, and announced important changes to the portfolio of qualifications. Two…

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August 10, 2018

ASP Writer and Vetter opportunities

We are recruiting for writers and vetters for 1 additional ASP for the following Units: Unit J0J7 34 Cyber Security: Graded Unit 1 Unit HG2V 34 Digital Design and Web Development: Graded Unit 1 Unit HT9T 34 Artificial Intelligence If you are interested in writing or vetting one of these ASPs, please e-mail Emma Campos (copied above) by the 24th of August if you are interested.

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