{"id":2448,"date":"2017-12-07T14:04:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2017-12-07T14:04:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:04:22","slug":"diplomas-in-it-telecoms-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/diplomas-in-it-telecoms-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomas in IT &amp; Telecoms Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a member of a working group that is looking at replacement qualifications for the existing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/65574.html\">Diploma in IT &amp; Telecoms Professionals<\/a>, which exists at SCQF Levels 5, 6 and 8. The group met this morning to look at the replacement qualifications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetechpartnership.com\/\">Tech Partnership<\/a> is proposing to replace these qualifications with<strong> three new awards<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Diploma in IT Infrastructure<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Diploma in IT Solution Development<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Diploma in Digital Telecoms.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These will be available at SCQF Levels 6 and 8 &#8212; so there will be no Level 5 replacement (the existing Level 5 award will end). The purpose of today&#8217;s meeting was to consider the draft frameworks for the IT Infrastructure and IT Solution awards, and also consider draft versions of the component units.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting went well and the draft frameworks and units were largely liked so there won&#8217;t be many changes to the proposed qualifications. Once the frameworks and units are approved by <a href=\"https:\/\/accreditation.sqa.org.uk\/accreditation\/home\">SQA Accreditation<\/a>, the interested awarding bodies (which includes SQA Awarding) will then create their own qualifications based on them, and eventually find their way into Modern Apprenticeships.<\/p>\n<p>Tech Partnership hopes to have the Diplomas completed by <strong>March<\/strong> of next year, with the intention of having them included in MAs by <strong>July<\/strong>. <a href=\"mailto:cmorrow@morrow.com\">Contact Chris<\/a> for more information about this development or <a href=\"mailto:emma.campos@sqa.org.uk\">contact Emma<\/a> for more information about Competence Based Qualifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a member of a working group that is looking at replacement qualifications for the existing Diploma in IT &amp; Telecoms Professionals, which exists at SCQF Levels 5, 6 and 8. The group met this morning to look at the replacement qualifications. Tech Partnership is proposing to replace these qualifications with three new awards: Diploma in IT Infrastructure Diploma in IT Solution Development Diploma in Digital Telecoms. These will be available at SCQF Levels 6 and 8 &#8212; so there&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\/2448","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=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}