{"id":4435,"date":"2026-05-07T12:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=4435"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:00:41","slug":"approved-changes-to-qualifications-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/approved-changes-to-qualifications-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Approved changes to qualifications for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Qualifications Support Team (QST) meets annually to receive updates and consider qualification proposals submitted by centres, or individuals, throughout the year. Our annual meeting took place yesterday, 6 May.<\/p>\n

Following constructive discussions on the qualification proposals to be considered, I am happy to advise that the following changes were approved:<\/p>\n

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  1. HNC Digital Design and Web Development (GL7Y 15) – Addition of Agile Development: Introduction (HT9H 34) as an optional unit.<\/li>\n
  2. NPA Computing Technologies (GV6W 44) – Addition of Information System Design and Development (H226 74) as an optional unit.<\/li>\n
  3. NPA Computing Technologies (GV6W 45) – Addition of Computing: Website Design and Development (HW52 45) as an optional unit.<\/li>\n
  4. NPA Computing Technologies (GV6W 46) – Addition of Computing: Authoring a website (F3T2 12) as an optional unit.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The team will now process these changes. The units will be available for delivery from August 2026.<\/p>\n

    If you have any queries, please do no hesitate to contact me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Qualifications Support Team (QST) meets annually to receive updates and consider qualification proposals submitted by centres, or individuals, throughout the year. Our annual meeting took place yesterday, 6 May. Following constructive discussions on the qualification proposals to be considered, I am happy to advise that the following changes were approved: HNC Digital Design and Web Development (GL7Y 15) – Addition of Agile Development: Introduction (HT9H 34) as an optional unit. NPA Computing Technologies (GV6W 44) – Addition of Information…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"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\/4435"}],"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\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4435"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4445,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions\/4445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}