{"id":2513,"date":"2018-02-13T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2018-02-13T14:00:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T14:00:48","slug":"refreshed-hnd-computer-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/refreshed-hnd-computer-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Refreshed HND Computer Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/hnd-computer-science-qdt-2\/\">recently<\/a> posted an update about the revision of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/65893.html\">HND Computer Science<\/a>. Since then the QDT has finalised the <a href=\"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/w\/s!Av71_tveB0_uhcUs5qaqQ1TdnyTtfw\">framework<\/a>. The main change to the qualification is that <em>Managing a Web Server<\/em> has been replaced by <em>Computer Architecture<\/em> in the mandatory section of the award. We&#8217;ve also tidied the optional units to make them more relevant to the field of computer science.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re currently working on the group award specification (GAS) and hope to have this ready in the next few weeks. Once it is, we&#8217;ll get the award validated around <strong>March<\/strong> and available to centre shortly thereafter <strong>(April<\/strong> or\u00a0<strong>May<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk\">contact Helen<\/a> for more information about this qualification. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/65893.html\">existing qualification<\/a> will continue to be available to centres until <strong>2021.<\/strong> Later this year, we will commence the review of the suite of HN Computing awards. The revised version of this qualification will be part of that review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently posted an update about the revision of HND Computer Science. Since then the QDT has finalised the framework. The main change to the qualification is that Managing a Web Server has been replaced by Computer Architecture in the mandatory section of the award. We&#8217;ve also tidied the optional units to make them more relevant to the field of computer science. We&#8217;re currently working on the group award specification (GAS) and hope to have this ready in the next&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\/2513"}],"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=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}