{"id":3149,"date":"2019-09-02T15:52:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T14:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2019-09-02T15:52:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T14:52:37","slug":"computing-conference-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/computing-conference-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Computing Conference 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve held an annual conference for Computing qualifications for a long time (going back more than 20 years) but next year (2020) we&#8217;re doing something a little different. Next year&#8217;s conference will combine vocational and academic qualifications, so it will cover the full suite of Computing awards ranging from Nationals to HNDs.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be a mix of keynotes, workshops and demonstrations. We&#8217;ve already thought about the workshops, which will likely include the new materials for <em>NPA Cyber Security<\/em>, introduce <em>NPA Data Science<\/em> and H<em>ND Cyber Security<\/em>, and workshops about National Qualifications. We hope that a lot of teachers and lecturers will attend. The keynote (still to be decided) will focus on an emerging field in computer science.<\/p>\n<p>The event will take place on <strong>Wednesday, 5 February, 2020<\/strong>, at <strong>Stirling Court Hotel<\/strong> (part of the University of Stirling campus). More details will follow but, in the meantime, it&#8217;s a date for your diary. Please <a href=\"mailto:rowan.thomson@sqa.org.uk\">contact Rowan<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve held an annual conference for Computing qualifications for a long time (going back more than 20 years) but next year (2020) we&#8217;re doing something a little different. Next year&#8217;s conference will combine vocational and academic qualifications, so it will cover the full suite of Computing awards ranging from Nationals to HNDs. The event will be a mix of keynotes, workshops and demonstrations. We&#8217;ve already thought about the workshops, which will likely include the new materials for NPA Cyber Security,&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\/3149","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=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}