{"id":111,"date":"2014-10-14T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2014\/10\/14\/aspect-report-on-computing\/"},"modified":"2014-10-14T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T13:03:00","slug":"aspect-report-on-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/aspect-report-on-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspect report on Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/09\/aspect-report-for-computing.html\">previously <\/a>the recently published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationscotland.gov.uk\/Images\/ComputingDigitalMedia_tcm4-840204.pdf\">Aspect report<\/a>&nbsp;[PDF] on Computing in colleges. I&#8217;ve now had a proper read of the final report.<\/p>\n<p>Section 9 lists a number of actions that various agencies should carry out. There are none directly addressed to SQA (the curriculum got a pretty clean bill of health) but there are some that, I think, SQA can play an important role. These are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the role of Mathematics within Computing programmes<\/li>\n<li>the achievement rates in the subject area<\/li>\n<li>employer involvement in programmes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>The report also mentions vendor links (in Section 2 rather than a recommendation) and this is something, too, that I plan to look at.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I intend to liaise with the HMIE who wrote the report (Sheila Page) to discuss how SQA can help. I think that the first recommendation (the role of Maths within Computing) is something, in particular, that SQA can assist with. Look out for future posts about this.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned previously the recently published Aspect report&nbsp;[PDF] on Computing in colleges. I&#8217;ve now had a proper read of the final report. Section 9 lists a number of actions that various agencies should carry out. There are none directly addressed to SQA (the curriculum got a pretty clean bill of health) but there are some that, I think, SQA can play an important role. These are: the role of Mathematics within Computing programmes the achievement rates in the subject area&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}