{"id":54,"date":"2015-04-09T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2015\/04\/09\/qualification-support-team-for-vocational-computing-awards\/"},"modified":"2015-04-09T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T10:45:00","slug":"qualification-support-team-for-vocational-computing-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/qualification-support-team-for-vocational-computing-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualification Support Team for vocational Computing awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Qualification Support Team (QST)\u00a0for vocational Computing qualifications\u00a0met on 19th March in the\u00a0SQA Glasgow Office. This was a combined meeting to cover both Advanced (HN\/PDA) and Non-advanced (NPA\/NC\/NU) qualifications. <\/span><\/p>\n

The QST discussed the proposals from the\u00a0SQA centres and the following changes to the existing qualifications have been approved: \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Add F3GB11 Communication<\/a> and F3GF 11 Numeracy<\/a> to GC8R 45 NC Computer Games Development as optional units <\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Add H17W 34 Software Development: Developing Small Scale Standalone Applications<\/a> as an optional unit to G9NX 15 HNC Computer Games Development <\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Add D85F 34 Using Software Applications Packages<\/a> as an optional unit to GF3E 15 HNC Computing, GG7D 16 HND Computer Science, GG7C 16 HND Computing; Software Development and GG7F 16 HND Computing: Technical Support <\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Add D75X 34 Information Technology: Applications Software 1<\/a> as an optional unit to GF3E 15 HNC Computing, GG7D 16 HND Computer Science, GG7C 16 HND Computing; Software Development and GG7F 16 HND Computing: Technical Support <\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Add H173 34 Developing Software: Introduction<\/a> as an optional unit to G8CX 16 HND Information Technology <\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Add DH35 34 Computing: Planning<\/a> as an optional to HNC\/D Computing awards <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    The QST also approved the production of\u00a0a new Assessment Support Pack (ASP) for D75X 34 Information Technology: Applications Software 1<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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    The QST emphasized the importance of including a Testing unit into HNC\/D Computing award to teach learners how to read codes and design patterns. SQA will look into the options of developing a new\u00a0unit or using an existing one. <\/span><\/div>\n
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    SQA updated the QST with the recent qualification development. The QST was very keen on the development for NPAs in Cyber Security at SCQF levels 4, 5 and 6 and suggested HNC\/D Cyber Security to be developed to provide a natural progression route. <\/span><\/div>\n
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    Caroline and I\u00a0will take forward these action. Contact me<\/a> about the non-advanced changes and contact Caroline<\/a> about the advanced changes.<\/span><\/div>\n
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    The Qualification Support Team (QST)\u00a0for vocational Computing qualifications\u00a0met on 19th March in the\u00a0SQA Glasgow Office. This was a combined meeting to cover both Advanced (HN\/PDA) and Non-advanced (NPA\/NC\/NU) qualifications. The QST discussed the proposals from the\u00a0SQA centres and the following changes to the existing qualifications have been approved: \u00a0 Add F3GB11 Communication and F3GF 11 Numeracy to GC8R 45 NC Computer Games Development as optional units Add H17W 34 Software Development: Developing Small Scale Standalone Applications as an optional unit…<\/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\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}