{"id":3271,"date":"2020-01-06T12:43:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T12:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=3271"},"modified":"2020-01-06T12:43:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T12:43:51","slug":"happy-new-year-from-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/happy-new-year-from-the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year from the team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year to everyone. We hope that you had a nice holiday. This year is shaping up to be a busy year.<\/p>\n<p>In February, we&#8217;re holding the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/computing-conference-2020-2\/\">2020 Computing Conference<\/a> in Stirling, which will be a much bigger event than usual. We&#8217;re hoping that up to 200 teachers attend. We&#8217;re also providing <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/register-now-for-cyber-security-training\/\">hands-on training<\/a> for teachers of cyber security that month at various locations throughout Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re expecting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/91458.html\">NPA Data Science<\/a> to be offered by a lot of centres next session (August) and we&#8217;re currently busy working on a range of support materials for that new qualification.<\/p>\n<p>Two developments are on-going and one (major) development is about to commence. We&#8217;re currently developing <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/pda-cyber-security\/\">PDA Cyber Security<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/first-meeting-of-the-development-team-for-pda-data-science\/\">PDA Data Science<\/a>. Both will be available to centres from August. The long-awaiting <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/hn-review-update-4\/\">HN Review<\/a> is likely to be given the green light soon and that will be a large development, involving a suite of popular Higher National awards.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:computing@sqa.org.uk\">contact the team<\/a> if you need any help or support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year to everyone. We hope that you had a nice holiday. This year is shaping up to be a busy year. In February, we&#8217;re holding the 2020 Computing Conference in Stirling, which will be a much bigger event than usual. We&#8217;re hoping that up to 200 teachers attend. We&#8217;re also providing hands-on training for teachers of cyber security that month at various locations throughout Scotland. We&#8217;re expecting NPA Data Science to be offered by a lot of centres&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\/3271","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=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}