{"id":708,"date":"2009-04-29T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2009\/04\/29\/computer-games-2\/"},"modified":"2009-04-29T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T13:22:00","slug":"computer-games-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/computer-games-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I visited Forrester High School this morning to discuss qualifications in computer games.<\/p>\n<p>A group of teachers, representing the school, college and university sectors, had been thinking about developing awards relating to computer games, and wanted to discuss their ideas with me.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good meeting and their ideas were very interesting with lots of potential. The group proposed three new awards (National Progression Awards) at SCQF Levels 4, 5 and 6. I explained the process that has to be followed to turn ideas like this into real qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>The first stage is to ensure that SQA has the capacity to support the development so I&#8217;ll discuss this internally before deciding if\/when to take this forward. But it sounds an interesting development, which I&#8217;m sure would be popular with schools and colleges.<\/p>\n<p>We are <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/hnd-computer-games-development.html\">currently developing a new HND in this area<\/a> (HND Computer Games Development), which will include reviewing the existing HNC award (HNC Computer Games Development), so developing new awards at Levels 4, 5 and 6 would compliment these on-going developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visited Forrester High School this morning to discuss qualifications in computer games. A group of teachers, representing the school, college and university sectors, had been thinking about developing awards relating to computer games, and wanted to discuss their ideas with me. It was a good meeting and their ideas were very interesting with lots of potential. The group proposed three new awards (National Progression Awards) at SCQF Levels 4, 5 and 6. I explained the process that has to&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\/708","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=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}