HNC/D IT review

The QDT for the review of HNC/D Information Technology met on Friday for the second time. The previous meeting was last June. The development was announced last January.

Of all the HN developments, this is the one that is going to change the most. The QDT has already proposed a name change (to HNC/D Technologies in Business) and the contents will be similarly revised. The purpose of Friday’s meeting was to get an update from the Lead Developer (Chris Deegan of City of Glasgow College) and decide on tasks and timescales.

It was also a bit of a brain storming session. The members of the QDT discussed lots of ideas about what could be included in the revised awards. Topics such as big data, statistics, emerging technology, business intelligence and social media were all proposed. The role of computer programming in the revised awards was also debated.

Chris is going to go away and have a think about all of these ideas and then update the Group Award Specification. As a result, I’m not sure when the revised awards will be ready for centres. We hoped that it would be August 2016, and it still might be, but that depends on the extent of the changes that Chris comes up with.

I’ll update you on timescales as soon as they’ve been decided. In the meantime, please contact Helen for more information about the current or revised awards.

Bobby Published 07/03/2016