{"id":472,"date":"2011-02-28T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2011\/02\/28\/supporting-centres-to-develop-new-awards\/"},"modified":"2011-02-28T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T12:16:00","slug":"supporting-centres-to-develop-new-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/supporting-centres-to-develop-new-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting centres to develop new awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/college-devised-qualifications.html\">posted recently<\/a> about how colleges can develop their own qualifications. Many centres have &#8220;devolved responsibility&#8221; and can validate their own awards. Alternatively, centres can ask SQA to lead the development.<\/p>\n<p>If colleges go down the latter route, SQA&#8217;s <i>Business Case Group (BCG)<\/i> scrutinises their proposal and decides if the idea is viable. I attended a BCG meeting this morning because a college had proposad a new HNC qualification in my area. There was a positive outcome, which will be communicated to the centre in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>The alternative route is for centres do develop a &#8220;single centre award&#8221; under their devolved responsibility powers. In this case, the centre has responsibility for developing the qualification, with advice from SQA, but they take responsibility for the development.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that under either scenario, the qualification, once developed and validated, is a national qualification, available to any centre. Also, under either scenario, SQA has responsibility for validating the units and would normally have representation at the validation event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:marketing@sqa.org.uk\">Contact Marketing<\/a> for more advice about developing your own awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted recently about how colleges can develop their own qualifications. Many centres have &#8220;devolved responsibility&#8221; and can validate their own awards. Alternatively, centres can ask SQA to lead the development. If colleges go down the latter route, SQA&#8217;s Business Case Group (BCG) scrutinises their proposal and decides if the idea is viable. I attended a BCG meeting this morning because a college had proposad a new HNC qualification in my area. There was a positive outcome, which will be&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\/472","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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}