{"id":250,"date":"2013-04-03T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2013\/04\/03\/sqa-and-bcs\/"},"modified":"2013-04-03T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T09:07:00","slug":"sqa-and-bcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/sqa-and-bcs\/","title":{"rendered":"SQA and BCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/mini\/26890.html\">DIVA<\/a> project forged links with a number of IT vendors and organisations,&nbsp;one of which is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcs.org\/\">British Computer Society<\/a> (BCS). SQA and BCS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/65233.html\">recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding<\/a> (MoU) to cement our relationship. The MoU signals both parties&#8217; intentions to help each other in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I&#8217;ve had a couple of meetings with BCS people to&nbsp; turn these good intentions into concrete actions that will benefit the users of SQA awards. We already have a number of exciting ideas that we plan to develop in the coming months. Look out for more news on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>SQA has been a leader in the way it links its qualifications to industry standards, and the SQA\/BCS relationship typifies the way that we seek to work with UK and international partners to make our awards as relevant as possible to learners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:bobby.elliott@sqa.org.uk\">Contact me<\/a> directly if you want to know more about the SQA\/BCS partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DIVA project forged links with a number of IT vendors and organisations,&nbsp;one of which is the British Computer Society (BCS). SQA and BCS recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cement our relationship. The MoU signals both parties&#8217; intentions to help each other in a variety of ways. Since then, I&#8217;ve had a couple of meetings with BCS people to&nbsp; turn these good intentions into concrete actions that will benefit the users of SQA awards. We already have&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\/250","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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}