{"id":1905,"date":"2016-05-27T16:38:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T15:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2016-05-27T16:38:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T15:38:33","slug":"hnc-data-analytics-and-computer-science-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/hnc-data-analytics-and-computer-science-update\/","title":{"rendered":"HNC Data Analytics and Computer Science update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/hnc-computer-science-and-hnc-data-analytics\/\">currently developing<\/a> two new HNCs: one in <em>Computer Science<\/em> and one in <em>Data Analytics<\/em>. They were originally conceived as part of the University of Strathclyde&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/digital-academy\/\">Digital Academy initiative<\/a>, which involves the University and three Glasgow colleges. At a meeting, held earlier this week in the SQA offices, it was agreed to add options to the existing <em>HNC Computing<\/em> for articulation, meaning that the <em>HNC Computer Science<\/em>\u00a0can\u00a0be developed without this requirement.<\/p>\n<p>We agreed to devise the new <em>HNC Computer Science<\/em> in tandem with a review of the existing <em>HND Computer Science<\/em>. This makes a lot of sense. The <em>HNC Data Analytics<\/em> will proceed as normal and will articulate with Strathclyde&#8217;s degree of the same name &#8211; although it will be a worthwhile qualification in its own right.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re hoping to have the <em>HNC Data Analytics<\/em> validated, and available to centres, by\u00a0<strong>September<\/strong>. The <em>HNC\/D Computer Science<\/em> development will commence in <strong>August<\/strong>. Please <a href=\"mailto:helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk\">contact Helen<\/a> if you want to know more about either project or wish to join the Qualification Development Team for Computer Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re currently developing two new HNCs: one in Computer Science and one in Data Analytics. They were originally conceived as part of the University of Strathclyde&#8217;s Digital Academy initiative, which involves the University and three Glasgow colleges. At a meeting, held earlier this week in the SQA offices, it was agreed to add options to the existing HNC Computing for articulation, meaning that the HNC Computer Science\u00a0can\u00a0be developed without this requirement. We agreed to devise the new HNC Computer Science&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}