{"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":"2026-05-07T12:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:05:02","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":"<p>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<p>Following constructive discussions on the qualification proposals to be considered, I am happy to advise that the following changes were approved:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>HND Computing: Technical Support (GM9D 16) &#8211; Addition of Virtualisation Technologies (J7E0 48) to the framework as an optional unit.<\/li>\n<li>HNC Digital Design and Web Development (GL7Y 15) &#8211; Addition of Agile Development: Introduction (HT9H 34) to the framework as an optional unit.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The team will now process these changes. The units will be available for delivery from August 2026.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any queries, please do no hesitate to <a href=\"mailto:emma.campos@qualifications.gov.scot\">contact me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: HND Computing: Technical Support (GM9D 16) &#8211; Addition of Virtualisation Technologies (J7E0 48) to the framework as an optional unit. HNC Digital Design and Web Development (GL7Y 15) &#8211;&hellip;<\/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":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4440,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions\/4440"}],"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}]}}