Friday 21 October 2011

QDT meeting

The final meeting of the QDT (prior to the HNC validation) took place this morning. The main reason for having the meeting was to bring everyone up-to-date with progress.

Unsurprisingly, the turn-out was not great, given that it is the October holiday for many people, but eight people made it along.



We discussed the frameworks, links with vendors, BCS accreditation and the forthcoming validation event.

The vendor item was particularly interesting. We recently devised a procedure for adding vendor qualifications to the new frameworks and today, for the first time, the QDT had an opportunity to consider some applications from vendors. We looked at three -- from Microsoft, COMPTIA, and CIW. We are piloting a system of direct accreditation of vendor awards inside HNs, so it was interesting to "test" the process. Some of the vendor applications were approved, and it was good to see the "vendor box" in the new frameworks begin to get filled.

The development is on schedule. I'm hoping to receive most of the new and revised units at the end of this month, and the units will be validated during November. The group award validation event will take place in early December. We hope to have the new HNC award available to centres from March 2012.

The next QDT meeting will take place early next year, once the HNC validation event has taken place and we can focus on the HND awards.

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