{"id":362,"date":"2011-12-14T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2011\/12\/14\/operational-planning\/"},"modified":"2011-12-14T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T13:32:00","slug":"operational-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/operational-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Operational planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team met this morning to discuss our plans for 2012-13. Every year each team in the <i>Qualifications Development Directorate<\/i> creates an operational plan, which describes the qualifications that we plan to revise or create in the coming year. I know that colleges do something similar, which is why we have the <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/heads-of-computing-event.html\">Heads of Computing event<\/a> around this time of the year to help you create your plans.<\/p>\n<p>A number of awards are due their &#8220;quinquenial review&#8221;. We try to review each qualification every five years. So, next year we will be looking at the National Certificate in Digital Media Computing, PC Passport, and HNC\/D IT, among others. We also have some ideas for new qualifications. Of course, me and my team don&#8217;t just dream up things and then proceed to develop them. Every development goes through a business case process, which ensures that we only spend time and money on qualifications that meet a real need.<\/p>\n<p>We try to listen to what you want throughout the year, but if you have any ideas for new qualifications please <a href=\"mailto:bobby.elliott@sqa.org.uk\">contact me directly<\/a> or leave a comment on this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team met this morning to discuss our plans for 2012-13. Every year each team in the Qualifications Development Directorate creates an operational plan, which describes the qualifications that we plan to revise or create in the coming year. I know that colleges do something similar, which is why we have the Heads of Computing event around this time of the year to help you create your plans. A number of awards are due their &#8220;quinquenial review&#8221;. We try to&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\/362","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=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}