{"id":2037,"date":"2016-11-01T13:59:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T13:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2016-11-01T13:59:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T13:59:19","slug":"hncd-computer-games-development-validation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/hncd-computer-games-development-validation\/","title":{"rendered":"HNC\/D Computer Games Development validation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The validation event for the refreshed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/25558.html\">HNC\/D Computer Games Development<\/a> took place yesterday. I&#8217;m delighted to report that the proposed changes were validated with conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of a validation event is for a Validation Panel (which must consist of people who were not involved in the development) to scrutinise a new (or revised) qualification by asking questions of the Qualification Development Team (QDT). The Panel consisted of representatives of colleges, universities, employers and SQA.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/DSC_0018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2038\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/DSC_0018-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_0018\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/DSC_0018-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/DSC_0018-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/DSC_0018-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/DSC_0018-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>I thought that yesterday&#8217;s validation was particularly good with interesting discussions about the contents of the refreshed award. As a result, we&#8217;re going to make some changes to what we planned. I think the changes will improve it.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to have the new version of the qualification available to centres from <strong>January<\/strong>. Please <a href=\"mailto:helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk\">contact Helen<\/a> if you want to know more about the refreshed (or current) award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The validation event for the refreshed HNC\/D Computer Games Development took place yesterday. I&#8217;m delighted to report that the proposed changes were validated with conditions. The purpose of a validation event is for a Validation Panel (which must consist of people who were not involved in the development) to scrutinise a new (or revised) qualification by asking questions of the Qualification Development Team (QDT). The Panel consisted of representatives of colleges, universities, employers and SQA. I thought that yesterday&#8217;s validation&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\/2037"}],"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=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}