{"id":575,"date":"2010-06-09T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2010\/06\/09\/national-certificate-in-computer-games\/"},"modified":"2010-06-09T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T15:01:00","slug":"national-certificate-in-computer-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/national-certificate-in-computer-games\/","title":{"rendered":"National Certificate in Computer Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the first meeting of the Qualification Development Team (QDT) for <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/national-certificate-in-computer-games.html\">the proposed NC in Computer Games<\/a> this morning.<\/p>\n<p>This is a centre-led development. The idea came from Forth Valley College and the development is being led by Fiona Jackson of the college. SQA takes a back-seat in this sort of development but provides funding and support when needed.<\/p>\n<p>Both Hilary and me attended this morning&#8217;s meeting to offer whatever help we could. The meeting went well and the QDT is planning to create a fairly generic award with lots of options to permit students to begin specialisation in one of a number of areas (such as programming or creative arts or animation).<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to create a Level 5 award that would permit students to progress to one of a number of HN awards. The team hope to have the <b>new award available by July 2011.<\/b> The award would include the <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/npa-games-validation-event.html\">new NPAs in Computer Games Development<\/a> and articulate with the <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/hncd-computer-games-development.html\">new HNC\/D Computer Games Development<\/a>, among other potential progression paths.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Fiona.Jackson@forthvalley.ac.uk\">Contact Fiona<\/a> for more information about this development. <a href=\"mailto:hilary.weir@sqa.org.uk\">Contact Hilary<\/a> about the new NPAs and <a href=\"mailto:caroline.douglas@sqa.org.uk\">contact Caroline<\/a> about the new HN awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the first meeting of the Qualification Development Team (QDT) for the proposed NC in Computer Games this morning. This is a centre-led development. The idea came from Forth Valley College and the development is being led by Fiona Jackson of the college. SQA takes a back-seat in this sort of development but provides funding and support when needed. Both Hilary and me attended this morning&#8217;s meeting to offer whatever help we could. The meeting went well and the&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\/575","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=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}