{"id":825,"date":"2008-04-01T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2008\/04\/01\/hnd-computer-games-2\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T11:04:00","slug":"hnd-computer-games-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/hnd-computer-games-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HND Computer Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/controller?p_service=Content.show&amp;p_applic=CCC&amp;sector=25153&amp;pContentID=25558\">HNC Computer Games Development<\/a> has been available to centres for some time. We didn&#8217;t develop a corresponding HND award because there were question marks about likely uptake. Nearly all of the HNC students progress to university degree courses (in a related area).<\/p>\n<p>But I have received a small number of requests to develop an HND. Although not large in number, these requests are regular. So I plan to arrange a meeting of interested parties later this academic year (probably June) to discuss our options and to determine if there is a genuine demand for an HND award.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll write to centres in the next few weeks but in the meantime it would be interesting to read your views via the comment facility.<\/p>\n<p>Contact <a href=\"mailto:%20caroline.douglas@sqa.org.uk\">Caroline <\/a>for further information about Computer Games qualifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An HNC Computer Games Development has been available to centres for some time. We didn&#8217;t develop a corresponding HND award because there were question marks about likely uptake. Nearly all of the HNC students progress to university degree courses (in a related area). But I have received a small number of requests to develop an HND. Although not large in number, these requests are regular. So I plan to arrange a meeting of interested parties later this academic year (probably&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\/825","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=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}