{"id":3134,"date":"2019-08-05T14:35:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T13:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2019-08-05T14:35:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T13:35:37","slug":"retiring-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/retiring-qualifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Retiring qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SQA regularly reviews the portfolio of qualifications to remove qualifications that are no longer current. We&#8217;re very careful about this. Once a qualification has low (or no) uptake for several years, a Business Development Manager will consult with stakeholders to ensure that removing it is OK before it comes to me to make a final decision.<\/p>\n<p>A number of qualifications have been recommended for withdrawal including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NPA Internet Technology<\/li>\n<li>PDA Web Development<\/li>\n<li>PDA Database Programming<\/li>\n<li>Diploma in Digital Application Support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Portfolio-1.pdf\">Portfolio<\/a> diagram summarises all of the awards that we plan to withdraw. It&#8217;s a useful diagram to print-and-keep so that you know what&#8217;s available, what&#8217;s coming &#8212; and what&#8217;s going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SQA regularly reviews the portfolio of qualifications to remove qualifications that are no longer current. We&#8217;re very careful about this. Once a qualification has low (or no) uptake for several years, a Business Development Manager will consult with stakeholders to ensure that removing it is OK before it comes to me to make a final decision. A number of qualifications have been recommended for withdrawal including: NPA Internet Technology PDA Web Development PDA Database Programming Diploma in Digital Application Support.&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\/3134","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=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}