{"id":2938,"date":"2019-02-08T12:41:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T12:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=2938"},"modified":"2019-02-08T12:41:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T12:41:06","slug":"hn-review-and-hn-next-gen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/hn-review-and-hn-next-gen\/","title":{"rendered":"HN Review and HN Next Gen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Boyle gave one of the keynotes at <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/computing-conference-2019-3\/\">last week&#8217;s Computing Conference<\/a>. Martin spoke about the next generation of HN qualifications &#8212; or <em>HN Next Gen<\/em>\u00a0as the project is called. You can see his presentation <a href=\"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/p\/s!Av71_tveB0_uhd1rLfKQVCgroWJtPg\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The current &#8220;direction of travel&#8221; (see slide 13 in his presentation) involves:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HNCs consisting of 120 SCQF points (15 SQA credits) and HND&#8217;s 240 (30 SQA credits)<\/li>\n<li>common core in all HN awards of &#8220;21st Century skills&#8221; (see slide 8)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;bigger&#8221; units &#8211; perhaps up to four SQA credits (32 SCQF points)<\/li>\n<li>reduced assessment, involving more project and practical work<\/li>\n<li>doing away with outcome by outcome assessment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Martin has been consulting with stakeholders about the sorts of changes needed for some time, and he&#8217;s coming to the end of that phase. He&#8217;s about to &#8220;prototype&#8221; these ideas in two phases. Computing will be involved in the second phase, commencing <strong>August<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the current HN Review will be delayed for a short time so that we can incorporate the new design rules for HN awards. The alternative (proceeding with the review now then retro-fitting the required changes) doesn&#8217;t make sense. That doesn&#8217;t mean that we will sit on our hands for six months. We&#8217;re currently creating a Qualification Development Team (QDT) and I plan to convene a first meeting of the QDT in the not too distant future. While there are some things that we can&#8217;t yet determine (such as the exact nature of the 21st Century skills) we can identify the vocational skills that should be included in the refreshed HNs.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:martin.boyle@sqa.org.uk\">contact Martin<\/a> if you want to know more about HN Next Gen or <a href=\"mailto:caitlin.boyle@sqa.org.uk\">contact Caitlin<\/a> if you want to know more about the review of HN Computing awards (or volunteer to join the QDT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Boyle gave one of the keynotes at last week&#8217;s Computing Conference. Martin spoke about the next generation of HN qualifications &#8212; or HN Next Gen\u00a0as the project is called. You can see his presentation here. The current &#8220;direction of travel&#8221; (see slide 13 in his presentation) involves: HNCs consisting of 120 SCQF points (15 SQA credits) and HND&#8217;s 240 (30 SQA credits) common core in all HN awards of &#8220;21st Century skills&#8221; (see slide 8) &#8220;bigger&#8221; units &#8211; perhaps&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\/2938"}],"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=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2940,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}