{"id":229,"date":"2013-06-20T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/2013\/06\/20\/hnd-computing-launch-event\/"},"modified":"2013-06-20T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T13:40:00","slug":"hnd-computing-launch-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/hnd-computing-launch-event\/","title":{"rendered":"HND Computing launch event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The launch event for the new and revised HNDs took place yesterday at Jury&#8217;s Inn in Glasgow. We launched the following awards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HND Computing: Networking (revised award)<\/li>\n<li>HND Computing: Software Development (revised award)<\/li>\n<li>HND Computing: Technical Support (revised award)<\/li>\n<li>HND Computer Science (new award).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was a great turnout, with over 50 people attending. Launch events are something of a celebration; a culmination of a great deal of hard work by a lot of people. I pointed out that 17 colleges were involved in this development, so it was a huge collective effort.<\/p>\n<p>I was the Master of Ceremonies for the day. My presentation outlined the purpose of the day and also some of the key messages.<\/p>\n<p>The key part of the day was the presentations by the Qualification Leaders, each of whom discussed the contents and key features of their qualifications. I also took the opportunity to highlight some related developments, such as the HN alternative assessment project, which has been written about <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/06\/qualification-review-team-meeting.html\">many times<\/a> on this blog.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-XzoszVcoJIY\/UcMDqZjZnfI\/AAAAAAAAU-Y\/L27qH4uf1KQ\/s1600\/20130619_115946.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-XzoszVcoJIY\/UcMDqZjZnfI\/AAAAAAAAU-Y\/L27qH4uf1KQ\/s640\/20130619_115946.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The event seemed to be well received. Please complete the (short) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/hndlaunch\">event evaluation survey<\/a> if you attended, so that we can improve future events.<\/p>\n<p>These awards are available now. You can download the Group Award Specifications&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/06\/group-award-specifications-for-hnd.html\">here<\/a>. Please <a href=\"mailto:caroline.douglas@sqa.org.uk\">contact Caroline<\/a> if you want a copy of any of the presentations or have any questions about these qualifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch event for the new and revised HNDs took place yesterday at Jury&#8217;s Inn in Glasgow. We launched the following awards: HND Computing: Networking (revised award) HND Computing: Software Development (revised award) HND Computing: Technical Support (revised award) HND Computer Science (new award). There was a great turnout, with over 50 people attending. Launch events are something of a celebration; a culmination of a great deal of hard work by a lot of people. I pointed out that 17&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\/229"}],"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=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}