{"id":1490,"date":"2015-09-04T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T15:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2015-09-04T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T15:17:07","slug":"annual-update-letters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/annual-update-letters-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual update letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on the update letter for non-advanced qualifications recently, and today I asked Helen to arrange for its distribution to centres. As many of you know, I send a letter about non-advanced awards (NU\/NPA\/NC) and a letter about advanced awards (HNU\/HNC\/HND\/PDA) to centres every year. These letters summarise the developments that have taken\u00a0place over the previous 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing in either letter that regular readers of this blog don&#8217;t already know. In fact, they contain a lot less information than what is provided here. It&#8217;s tempting to stop sending them and to use more contemporary means of communication (such as this blog) but I am aware that not every teacher and lecturer of Computing reads this blog. But, long term, the letters will stop. In the meantime, you can access a digital copy of the letter <a href=\"http:\/\/1drv.ms\/1JEwpAw\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The corresponding letter for advanced qualifications will follow shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on the update letter for non-advanced qualifications recently, and today I asked Helen to arrange for its distribution to centres. As many of you know, I send a letter about non-advanced awards (NU\/NPA\/NC) and a letter about advanced awards (HNU\/HNC\/HND\/PDA) to centres every year. These letters summarise the developments that have taken\u00a0place over the previous 12 months. There is nothing in either letter that regular readers of this blog don&#8217;t already know. In fact, they contain a&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\/1490","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=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}