{"id":142,"date":"2014-06-11T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2014\/06\/11\/digital-passport-information-event-2\/"},"modified":"2014-06-11T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T10:33:00","slug":"digital-passport-information-event-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/digital-passport-information-event-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Passport information event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/05\/digital-passport-pilot.html\">previously <\/a>written about the pilot of Digital Passport next year. So far, we&#8217;ve had a great response, with almost 30 centres expressing an interest in getting involved.<\/p>\n<p>Hilary is currently organising an information event for these centres, when we will explain in more detail what&#8217;s in the qualification and how the pilot will work. The event will take place on <b>Tuesday, 24 June<\/b> in Stirling.<\/p>\n<p>I recently updated the qualification FAQ, which now includes a <a href=\"http:\/\/1drv.ms\/Ta6bTa\">link to the draft units<\/a>. The FAQ should answer most of your questions about this new award.<\/p>\n<p>The units will be finalised in the next few days (the current versions are almost final versions) and will be published on the SQA website on 1 August. The qualification itself will be available to centres from the same date. Only pilot centres will be able to offer the award next year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not too late to get involved in the pilot (or at least find out more). <a href=\"mailto:hilary.weir@sqa.org.uk\">Contact Hilary<\/a> if you want more information about the award or join us at the information event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve previously written about the pilot of Digital Passport next year. So far, we&#8217;ve had a great response, with almost 30 centres expressing an interest in getting involved. Hilary is currently organising an information event for these centres, when we will explain in more detail what&#8217;s in the qualification and how the pilot will work. The event will take place on Tuesday, 24 June in Stirling. I recently updated the qualification FAQ, which now includes a link to the draft&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\/142","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=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}