{"id":2386,"date":"2017-10-11T11:52:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T10:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2017-10-11T11:52:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T10:52:01","slug":"interview-by-edutalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/interview-by-edutalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview by EduTalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was interviewed by David Noble of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutalk.info\/\">EduTalk <\/a>recently and the show is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutalk.info\/show\/radio-edutalk-19-09-2017-bobby-elliott-and-robbie-paterson-on-developments-in-sqa-computing-qualifications\/\">available online<\/a>. David asked a wide range of questions about school and college qualifications and you might find the interview of interest. The questions were wide ranging and included the current areas of skills shortage, future trends in computer education, vocational qualifications in schools with some discussion about specific qualifications such as PC Passport. Forgive me speaking for most of the time. The focus was vocational (not traditional) awards so most of the questions were addressed to me.<\/p>\n<p>EduTalk is an excellent educational podcast, which covers various aspects of education and technology. You can check the upcoming shows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutalk.info\/upcoming\/\">here <\/a>or check the archive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutalk.info\/category\/radio-edutalk\/\">here <\/a>or subscribe using your usual podcast app (you&#8217;ll find it through search).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was interviewed by David Noble of\u00a0EduTalk recently and the show is now available online. David asked a wide range of questions about school and college qualifications and you might find the interview of interest. The questions were wide ranging and included the current areas of skills shortage, future trends in computer education, vocational qualifications in schools with some discussion about specific qualifications such as PC Passport. Forgive me speaking for most of the time. The focus was vocational (not&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\/2386","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=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}