{"id":3877,"date":"2021-11-16T16:03:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T16:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2021-11-16T16:03:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T16:03:38","slug":"next-gen-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/next-gen-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Gen update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to tell you that we received a number of applications to pilot HNC Computing from August 2022. Regular readers will know that we didn&#8217;t get volunteers the first time of asking, so I was delighted to get several this time. As a result, two colleges (New College Lanarkshire and North East Scotland College) will deliver the new HNC from August 2022. The pilot will be evaluated in Spring 2023.<\/p>\n<p>No-one came forward to offer HND Data Science but we&#8217;ll continue to develop this qualification so that it&#8217;s ready if and when colleges want to offer it.<\/p>\n<p>We also asked for volunteers to offer HND Computer Science, HND Networking &amp; Infrastructure and HND Software Development. No-one applied so we&#8217;re currently considering the timescales to modernise these awards.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to reconvene the Qualification Development Team (QDT) in January (2022) to finalise the HNC Computing and HND Data Science qualifications. Both qualifications are almost complete but there&#8217;s some development work still to be done with HND Data Science.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk\">contact Helen<\/a> if you want to know more about this work or to volunteer for the QDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to tell you that we received a number of applications to pilot HNC Computing from August 2022. Regular readers will know that we didn&#8217;t get volunteers the first time of asking, so I was delighted to get several this time. As a result, two colleges (New College Lanarkshire and North East Scotland College) will deliver the new HNC from August 2022. The pilot will be evaluated in Spring 2023. No-one came forward to offer HND Data Science but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/3877"}],"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=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3878,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}