{"id":3973,"date":"2022-04-25T14:47:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T13:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=3973"},"modified":"2022-04-25T14:47:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T13:47:11","slug":"data-science-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/data-science-qualifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Science qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a member of a project board, which is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ddi.ac.uk\/\">DDI initiative<\/a> ran by the University of Edinburgh. The convener asked me to update members about the new <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/new-national-units-in-data-skills\/\">Data Skills units<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I created a short presentation and, as part of that, I produced a slide that summarises all of the qualifications relating to data science.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/04\/Data-Science-qualifications.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3974\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/Data-Science-qualifications-300x275.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"441\" \/><\/a>\n<p>The illustration shows the portfolio of data science qualifications available to centres. There&#8217;s now something spanning SCQF Level 3 to SCQF Level 9. We began these developments in 2018 and the addition of the new National Units probably brings qualification development in this area to a conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:megan.sharkey@sqa.org.uk\">contact Megan<\/a> if you want to know more about the National Units or the NPAs and <a href=\"mailto:amy.blain@sqa.org.uk\">contact Amy<\/a> if you want to know more about PDAs or the HND.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a member of a project board, which is part of the DDI initiative ran by the University of Edinburgh. The convener asked me to update members about the new Data Skills units. I created a short presentation and, as part of that, I produced a slide that summarises all of the qualifications relating to data science. The illustration shows the portfolio of data science qualifications available to centres. There&#8217;s now something spanning SCQF Level 3 to SCQF Level 9.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/3973","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=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}