An invitation to the HND Computer Games consultation event was despatched to all FE centres last week. This event is being held on Tuesday 12th August in the Carlton Hotel in Edinburgh from 10.00am until 12.30pm. If you would like to attend, please contact Scott Miller at ict@sqa.org.uk to book your place. We have chosen this date to coincide with the Edinburgh Interactive Games Festival, which specialises on gaming and games culture. This takes place from Sunday 10th August until…
SFEU held a subject network event for Computing today at Central College in Glasgow. John McCann opened the event with an interested potted history of the subject. his talk brought back many happy memories for me of such things as the Advanced Courses Development Programme that commenced in the 1980’s. I had a couple of speaking slots – one on HN developments and one on the new NC awards. The HN presentation was interesting because part of it related to…
SQA has recently updated its Guide to Assessment. SQA Guide To Assessment – Upload a Document to Scribd Read this document on Scribd: SQA Guide To Assessment It contains vital information for every assessor.
An online survey was opened today relating to the HND Interactive Media development. More info on the dedicated blog. The survey can be directly accessed here.
We now have 11 Assessment Exemplars uploaded to the secure site for Interactive Media. There is only one more to come, the Graded Unit. This is currently in its final stages and should be available on the secure site by the end of June. Your SQA coordinator will be able to download the following: Client Side Scripting for Web ApplicationsDigital Imaging: Bitmap and VectorDigital Media: AudioDigital Media: VideoInteractive Media PlanningInteractive Media AuthoringInternet: Web Development Standards and LegislationManage Database Systems Using…
As you may know, we have recently appointed a Qualification Development Team (QDT) to take forward the production of an HN Unit which will cover the above IBM course content and will be available for inclusion into various HN Group Awards from 1st August 2008. The Unit value will be 2 credits (80 notional hours) at SCQF Level 7 and currently has the working title of ‘Multi User Transactional Operating System: Operator’. The writing process for this HN Unit is…
SQA has two types of validations: a “group award validation” and an “operational validation”. The group award event is the one where a panel check the qualification proposal from an educational and employment perspective. Many of you will have served on such a validation panel in the past. An operational validation is an internal process to check that the proposed award “will work” – in other words, SQA can actually implement it. Today we had the operational validation for three…
As many of you will know, the original PC Passport suite of awards was refreshed during 2006/7 and the revised awards came on-stream in August last year. We had planned to let the original qualifications run out (“lapse” in SQA-ese) in July 2008 – which would mean that we would not accept any new entries after this date. But I’ve had several e-mails and other communications from centres that want to continue to run with the original awards and, after…
