{"id":4194,"date":"2024-01-11T15:31:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T15:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=4194"},"modified":"2024-01-11T15:31:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T15:31:46","slug":"happy-new-year-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/happy-new-year-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Me and the team wish you all a Happy New Year and a successful 2024. I posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/review-of-the-year-4\/\">review of 2023<\/a> just before Christmas and I want to outline what we hope to achieve this year in this message.<\/p>\n<p>There are three on-going developments right now. We&#8217;re in the middle of developing NPA Computing, which will be ready for session 2024\/25, refreshing NPA Data Science, also ready for next session, and continuing to pilot new Higher National Qualifications (HNQs), specifically HNC Computing, HND Networking &amp; Cloud Infrastructure and HND Software Development.<\/p>\n<p>NPA Computing is an entirely new suite of awards (at SCQF Levels 4, 5 and 6), which, we hope, will sit alongside National Qualifications as an alternative to learners in schools and colleges. The qualification is taking shape and will include a mix of the old (hardware, software, programming, etc.) and the new (AI, games, cyber, data, etc.). The changes to NPA Data Science are relatively small. The framework isn&#8217;t going to change but a number of the units (including the mandatory units) are being refreshed. Please <a href=\"mailto:gayle.rennie@sqa.org.uk\">contact Gayle<\/a> if you want to know more about these developments.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re aware of the huge focus on AI and we&#8217;re actively considering how best to ensure that learners can specialise in this field if they wish to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The changes to HNQs are the biggest in a generation and I&#8217;ve good news for centres that want to get involved. Watch this space!<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I hope you choose to get involved with SQA this year, if you don&#8217;t already do so. SQA is unique (in the UK) in the way that we involve practitioners (teachers, lecturers and trainers) in qualification development and maintenance. We&#8217;re always looking for people to help with qualification development or serve on one of our committees or work as an External Quality Assurer (External Verifier). Please <a href=\"mailto:megan.sharkey@sqa.org.uk\">contact Megan<\/a> if you want to know more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me and the team wish you all a Happy New Year and a successful 2024. I posted a review of 2023 just before Christmas and I want to outline what we hope to achieve this year in this message. There are three on-going developments right now. We&#8217;re in the middle of developing NPA Computing, which will be ready for session 2024\/25, refreshing NPA Data Science, also ready for next session, and continuing to pilot new Higher National Qualifications (HNQs), specifically&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/4194","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=4194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}