{"id":3476,"date":"2020-10-02T11:03:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T10:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2020-10-02T11:03:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T10:03:46","slug":"hnd-data-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/hnd-data-science\/","title":{"rendered":"HND Data Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers will know that we&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/update-on-new-higher-nationals\/\">currently developing a suite of Higher National (HN) awards<\/a> as part of &#8220;HN Next Gen&#8221;. One of that suite is HND Data Science. Unlike the other qualifications in this development, HND Data Science is a new qualification (the others are existing qualifications that we&#8217;re updating). We had planned to develop an HND in Data Science some time ago, but it made sense to make it one of the first new types of HN qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s early days in the development. But I can share a few things about how it&#8217;s shaping up. HND Data Science will be a <strong>one year<\/strong> qualification at <strong>SCQF Level 8<\/strong>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/pda-data-science-is-validated\/\">recently developed<\/a> Professional Development Awards (PDAs) in Data Science at Levels 8 and 9 will be part of it. As with all &#8220;next generation&#8221; HNs, meta-skills will feature prominently and the qualification will comprise fewer, larger units than traditional HN awards. We&#8217;ve produced a draft framework for the HND and, once we complete consultation, we&#8217;ll move onto unit writing.<\/p>\n<p>The qualification will be complete <strong>early 2021<\/strong> and available to centres from <strong>August<\/strong> (2021). Because it&#8217;s part of the &#8220;next gen&#8221; project, we&#8217;ll be looking for centres to pilot the qualification. Please <a href=\"mailto:helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk\">contact Helen<\/a> for more information about this qualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers will know that we&#8217;re currently developing a suite of Higher National (HN) awards as part of &#8220;HN Next Gen&#8221;. One of that suite is HND Data Science. Unlike the other qualifications in this development, HND Data Science is a new qualification (the others are existing qualifications that we&#8217;re updating). We had planned to develop an HND in Data Science some time ago, but it made sense to make it one of the first new types of HN qualifications.&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\/3476"}],"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=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}