{"id":4200,"date":"2024-01-18T11:18:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T11:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=4200"},"modified":"2024-01-18T11:18:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T11:18:47","slug":"new-pilot-centres-for-hnc-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/new-pilot-centres-for-hnc-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"New pilot centres for HNC Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers will know that Higher National Qualifications (HNQs) are being revised as part of the &#8220;Next Generation&#8221; programme. Computing was one of the first subjects to be selected and we&#8217;ve now developed five new qualifications:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>HNC Computing<\/li>\n<li>HND Computer Science<\/li>\n<li>HND Data Science<\/li>\n<li>HND Networking &amp; Cloud Infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>HND Software Development.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>HNC Computing was piloted in 2022\/23 and 2023\/24 in two colleges and, this year, we&#8217;re piloting HND Networking and HND Software Development (also in two colleges).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased to tell you that the pilot programme is expanding next year (session 2024\/25) and Computing is one of the subjects that will accept applications from centres to pilot HNC Computing. You can find out more <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.sqa.org.uk\/index.php\/email\/emailWebview?md_id=7753&amp;email=NTA1LVlCSC0zMDAAAAGQjXz7f_tzGvAdmx5ngk6XPdrFwSdV8EGdKkIAM-wtZ9zjJiB067jo1Etu8ae7-UAtDCwLsMp2BykJ3tAhACiADk8mXE3CXh05\">here<\/a>. Applications must be received no later than <strong>24 January<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The new qualifications are simpler, more up-to-date, have less assessment &#8212; and introduce a new grading scheme. The feedback from teachers and learners has been positive.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk\">contact Helen<\/a> if you want to know more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers will know that Higher National Qualifications (HNQs) are being revised as part of the &#8220;Next Generation&#8221; programme. Computing was one of the first subjects to be selected and we&#8217;ve now developed five new qualifications: HNC Computing HND Computer Science HND Data Science HND Networking &amp; Cloud Infrastructure HND Software Development. HNC Computing was piloted in 2022\/23 and 2023\/24 in two colleges and, this year, we&#8217;re piloting HND Networking and HND Software Development (also in two colleges). I&#8217;m pleased&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\/4200","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=4200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}