{"id":2158,"date":"2017-02-22T15:02:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2017-02-22T15:02:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:02:23","slug":"hnd-computer-science-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/hnd-computer-science-review\/","title":{"rendered":"HND Computer Science review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to let you know that we have started\u00a0the review of HND Computer Science. <strong>John Sutherland<\/strong> (formerly of Abertay University) is carrying out a scoping exercise to find out what (roughly) needs to be done to the existing award.<\/p>\n<p>Me and Helen met with John yesterday to outline the tasks involved. John has several questions to answer including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What should be included in an HND in Computer Science?<\/li>\n<li>What do universities expect from students who progress to their degrees?<\/li>\n<li>What skills do employers expect?<\/li>\n<li>Is there a need for an HNC Computer Science?<\/li>\n<li>Is maths essential in any computer science qualification?<\/li>\n<li>What entry qualifications are required?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>John will be talking to lots of different people over the coming weeks in an attempt to answer these questions. I hope to have the scoping completed by <strong>mid-April<\/strong> after which we will move onto developing the new\/revised qualification(s) so that they are ready for <strong>August 2018<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk\">contact Helen<\/a> if you want to know more about this development or you can <a href=\"mailto:akademos@btinternet.com\">contact John<\/a> directly if you have views on any of these questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to let you know that we have started\u00a0the review of HND Computer Science. John Sutherland (formerly of Abertay University) is carrying out a scoping exercise to find out what (roughly) needs to be done to the existing award. Me and Helen met with John yesterday to outline the tasks involved. John has several questions to answer including: What should be included in an HND in Computer Science? What do universities expect from students who progress to their degrees?&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\/2158"}],"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=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}