{"id":4255,"date":"2024-08-15T17:01:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T16:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=4255"},"modified":"2024-08-15T17:02:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T16:02:18","slug":"hnc-esports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/hnc-esports\/","title":{"rendered":"HNC Esports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce that SQA will be developing a new Higher National Qualification (HNQ) in esports. <strong>HNC Esports<\/strong> will be developed during session 2024\/25 and available to centres from August 2025. It will be developed as part of SQA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/100550.html\">Next Gen<\/a> initiative.<\/p>\n<p>SQA developed an <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/npa-esports-faq\/\">NPA in this area<\/a> during 2022\/23, which has proven to be popular in schools and colleges, and we&#8217;ve had many requests to further develop HNQs in esports.<\/p>\n<p>The first stage in any development is the formation of a Qualification Development Team (QDT) and we&#8217;re looking for members\u00a0<strong>now<\/strong>. Please complete this short form if you&#8217;re interested in volunteering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/e\/7FqGcQeM2n\">https:\/\/forms.office.com\/e\/7FqGcQeM2n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The time commitment is small, and meetings are held online (on Teams).<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:megan.sharkey@sqa.org.uk\">contact Megan<\/a> if you want to know more about this development or find out more about the work of the QDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce that SQA will be developing a new Higher National Qualification (HNQ) in esports. HNC Esports will be developed during session 2024\/25 and available to centres from August 2025. It will be developed as part of SQA&#8217;s Next Gen initiative. SQA developed an NPA in this area during 2022\/23, which has proven to be popular in schools and colleges, and we&#8217;ve had many requests to further develop HNQs in esports. The first stage in any development is&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\/4255"}],"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=4255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4257,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions\/4257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}