{"id":437,"date":"2011-05-19T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/2011\/05\/19\/nc-technical-support\/"},"modified":"2011-05-19T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T11:09:00","slug":"nc-technical-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/nc-technical-support\/","title":{"rendered":"NC Technical Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended a validation event yesterday, at the City of Glasgow College, to serve on the validation panel as the SQA representative.<\/p>\n

The college had devised a new National Certificate award, at SCQF Levels 5 and 6, which relates to the more technical aspects of the subject, entitled National Certificate Computing: Technical Support<\/b>. It was designed to articulate to the more technical HN awards, such as HNC\/D Computer Networking.<\/p>\n

The purpose of a validation event is for a group of independent experts to review the proposals to ensure that new qualifications are needed and valid. The panel was led by Walter Patterson, ex-HMI, and the Qualification Development Team was led by Margaret McKellar, of the college. Other members of the panel included representatives of E-Skills, industry, Higher Education, Further Education, and SQA (myself). Although the proposals received a thorough scrutiny from the panel, the qualifications were approved subject to a few conditions and recommendations.<\/p>\n

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The new National Certificate in Computing: Technical Support<\/b> at SCQF Levels 5 and 6<\/b> should be available to all centres from August 2011. Contact Margaret<\/a> if you want to know more about this new award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I attended a validation event yesterday, at the City of Glasgow College, to serve on the validation panel as the SQA representative. The college had devised a new National Certificate award, at SCQF Levels 5 and 6, which relates to the more technical aspects of the subject, entitled National Certificate Computing: Technical Support. It was designed to articulate to the more technical HN awards, such as HNC\/D Computer Networking. The purpose of a validation event is for a group of…<\/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\/437"}],"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=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}