{"id":2356,"date":"2017-09-18T11:01:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T10:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2017-09-18T11:08:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T10:08:53","slug":"hnd-computer-science-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/hnd-computer-science-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HND Computer Science review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/hnd-computer-science-qdt\/\">while <\/a>since I posted anything about the review of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/65893.html\">HND Computer Science<\/a>. We&#8217;ve made a lot of progress since then but also had a change of plan. The progress has been coming up with the aims and structure. The change of plan is bringing forward the quantitative research.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the draft Group Award Specification <a href=\"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/w\/s!Av71_tveB0_uhboFouS-xqcA13_ozg\">here<\/a>, which contains an explanation of the proposed changes, the aims of the revised award and a draft structure. The reason for doing the quantitative research earlier than planned is that we&#8217;ve had a lot of debate about the draft structure and reached a stage where we needed wider feedback from stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>So, I would appreciate if you would take five or ten minutes to <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/RhZnoagnweyXYaFE3\">complete the questionnaire<\/a>. The more people who respond, the more confidence we can have in the results.<\/p>\n<p>The revised HND Computer Science will be available to centres from early next year. Please <a href=\"mailto:helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk\">contact Helen<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I posted anything about the review of HND Computer Science. We&#8217;ve made a lot of progress since then but also had a change of plan. The progress has been coming up with the aims and structure. The change of plan is bringing forward the quantitative research. You can see the draft Group Award Specification here, which contains an explanation of the proposed changes, the aims of the revised award and a draft structure. The reason&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\/2356"}],"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=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}