{"id":120,"date":"2014-09-15T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2014\/09\/15\/review-of-hncd-interactive-media-2\/"},"modified":"2014-09-15T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T10:30:00","slug":"review-of-hncd-interactive-media-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/review-of-hncd-interactive-media-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of HNC\/D Interactive Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/09\/operational-plan.html\">may know<\/a>, we are currently revising <i>HNC\/D Interactive Media<\/i>. The Qualification Design Team (QDT) met for the first time on Friday. The QDT is responsible for all aspects of the development. I chair the group. The QDT has representatives of various Scottish colleges (including City of Glasgow, Fife, Ayrshire and New College).<\/p>\n<p>It was a positive and productive meeting. There was a lot of agreement about the changes that need to be made. And one in particular &#8211; that the focus should be on web development. In fact, a title change to <i>HNC\/D Web Development<\/i> is a possibility. But no-one wanted major changes. The current course was dated but still popular &#8220;with great job prospects&#8221; as one of the members pointed out. So, it will be a clear evolution from what we have.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re looking for more representation from universities and employers so if you know anyone who could help please <a href=\"mailto:caroline.douglas@sqa.org.uk\">let Caroline know<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not sure about timescales for this development but it&#8217;s like to be available to centres from <b>January 2016<\/b>. <a href=\"mailto:caroline.douglas@sqa.org.uk\">Contact Caroline<\/a> for more information about the development or to join the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, we are currently revising HNC\/D Interactive Media. The Qualification Design Team (QDT) met for the first time on Friday. The QDT is responsible for all aspects of the development. I chair the group. The QDT has representatives of various Scottish colleges (including City of Glasgow, Fife, Ayrshire and New College). It was a positive and productive meeting. There was a lot of agreement about the changes that need to be made. And one in particular &#8211;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}