{"id":244,"date":"2013-04-19T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2013\/04\/19\/review-of-the-national-certificate\/"},"modified":"2013-04-19T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T12:34:00","slug":"review-of-the-national-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/review-of-the-national-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of the National Certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As readers will <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/01\/nc-review.html\">know<\/a>, we are currently reviewing the <i>National Certificate in Digital Media Computing at Levels 4, 5 and 6<\/i>. We recently selected Lead Developers (LDs) for each Level and there was a meeting today involving the LDs and the SQA team.<\/p>\n<p>The Lead Developers are:<\/p>\n<p>Liz Allum of Cathkin HS for Level 4<br \/>David Renton of Reid Kerr College for Level 5<br \/>Gillian Dobry of Adam Smith College for Level 6.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-SL2x7DhARkc\/UXE0GS8sO1I\/AAAAAAAATAM\/0VYrTO77BnE\/s1600\/20130419_111202.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-SL2x7DhARkc\/UXE0GS8sO1I\/AAAAAAAATAM\/0VYrTO77BnE\/s640\/20130419_111202.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s meeting was a brain-storming session, when we discussed the ideas that came from the <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/01\/nc-review.html\">first meeting of the QDT <\/a>and tried to turn these ideas into a qualification structure. It was a good meeting. We discussed many things including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the title of the award<\/li>\n<li>the mandatory and optional split<\/li>\n<li>the inclusion of the new National Courses in Computing Science<\/li>\n<li>the inclusion of PC Passport (or its successor)<\/li>\n<li>core skills<\/li>\n<li>the inclusion of a project unit in all of the awards.<\/li>\n<li>the role of programming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was a lot of agreement about these things, and some good ideas came out of the meeting. For example, we discussed embedding [the new] PC Passport into the awards; we also discussed including the new National Courses within structure; and the possibility of including a project in all three awards. We intend to use <i>NC Computing<\/i> as a working title for the new awards.<\/p>\n<p>The LDs were asked to turn these ideas into frameworks, which we will share with the wider QDT (and then all stakeholders) once they have been firmed-up.<\/p>\n<p>Please use the comment facility if you want to provide feedback to the team, or <a href=\"mailto:hilary.weir@sqa.org.uk\">contact Hilary<\/a> directly if you want to know more about this development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As readers will know, we are currently reviewing the National Certificate in Digital Media Computing at Levels 4, 5 and 6. We recently selected Lead Developers (LDs) for each Level and there was a meeting today involving the LDs and the SQA team. The Lead Developers are: Liz Allum of Cathkin HS for Level 4David Renton of Reid Kerr College for Level 5Gillian Dobry of Adam Smith College for Level 6. 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