{"id":139,"date":"2014-06-12T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2014\/06\/12\/regional-college-contact\/"},"modified":"2014-06-12T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T11:02:00","slug":"regional-college-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/regional-college-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional college contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last few years has seen huge changes in the college sector, with many merging into &#8220;regional colleges&#8221;. From my subject&#8217;s perspective, this has meant that Computing Departments have combined across several centres, often into a faculty structure along with other subjects.<\/p>\n<p>I like to think that me and my team are pretty well known in centres but I am less familiar with these new combined course teams. So, during the new session, commencing August, I hope to work my way around each of the regional colleges.<\/p>\n<p>I also intend to identify a <b>regional college contact<\/b> (for Computing), a single person who I can communicate with when I want to liaise with a regional college about a Computing-related issue. This won&#8217;t replace my normal channels of communication (which include this blog, Twitter, QSTs, Sector Panel, and regular update letters) but gives me a named person for each new college. I&#8217;ll progress this in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last few years has seen huge changes in the college sector, with many merging into &#8220;regional colleges&#8221;. From my subject&#8217;s perspective, this has meant that Computing Departments have combined across several centres, often into a faculty structure along with other subjects. I like to think that me and my team are pretty well known in centres but I am less familiar with these new combined course teams. So, during the new session, commencing August, I hope to work my&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\/139","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=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}