{"id":528,"date":"2010-09-21T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2010\/09\/21\/national-certificate-games-development\/"},"modified":"2010-09-21T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T10:52:00","slug":"national-certificate-games-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/national-certificate-games-development\/","title":{"rendered":"National Certificate Games Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went along to the third meeting of the QDT for the <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/national-certificate-in-computer-games.html\">new NC award in Computer Games<\/a>. There was a good turnout with 13 people in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>It was a crucial meeting and involved a lot of important decisions about the structure of the award. One decision was the name of the award: we agreed <i>NC in Games Development at SCQF Level 5.<\/i>&nbsp;We also made decisions about the precise structure of the award, deciding what should be mandatory and what should be optional. The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/38436.html\">NPAs in Computer Games Development<\/a> will be fully embedded within the award.<\/p>\n<p>So lots of progress today. Of course, we need to continuously consult on every decision that we make &#8212; and ultimately the award will have to be scrutinised by a validation panel, but it&#8217;s good to see the award begin to take shape.<\/p>\n<p>The consortium hope to validate the <b>new units in February<\/b> next year and the <b>group award validation in May<\/b>. So, if all goes well, the <b>new award will be available to centres from August 2011<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The development is led by Fiona Jackson of Forth Valley College, along with a consortium of other interested colleges. Please <a href=\"mailto:Fiona.Jackson@forthvalley.ac.uk\">contact Fiona<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went along to the third meeting of the QDT for the new NC award in Computer Games. There was a good turnout with 13 people in attendance. It was a crucial meeting and involved a lot of important decisions about the structure of the award. One decision was the name of the award: we agreed NC in Games Development at SCQF Level 5.&nbsp;We also made decisions about the precise structure of the award, deciding what should be mandatory and&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\/528","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=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}