{"id":398,"date":"2011-09-28T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2011\/09\/28\/npa-mobile-technology\/"},"modified":"2011-09-28T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T12:53:00","slug":"npa-mobile-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/npa-mobile-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"NPA Mobile Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/search?q=mobile+technology\">mentioned <\/a>the <b>NPA in Mobile Technology<\/b> a couple of times in passing, but I thought it was time to give it its own post.<\/p>\n<p>The NQGA team in SQA is leading this work. The qualification is being developed by a consortium of colleges led by Anniesland College. The qualification is designed around the use of mobile technology, such as smartphones and tablets, and also the production of software (&#8220;apps&#8221;) for them. There will be two awards at SCQF Levels 4 and 5. The Level 4 award will contain two units, and the Level 5 three units. These new awards should be <b>available to centres from January 2012<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, all of this is subject to the validation going well. The validation will take place around late October or early November.<\/p>\n<p>I think these new awards will be appealing to schools and colleges.&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:Joseph.Spencer@sqa.org.uk\">Contact Joe Spencer<\/a>, of the NQGA team, for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned the NPA in Mobile Technology a couple of times in passing, but I thought it was time to give it its own post. The NQGA team in SQA is leading this work. The qualification is being developed by a consortium of colleges led by Anniesland College. The qualification is designed around the use of mobile technology, such as smartphones and tablets, and also the production of software (&#8220;apps&#8221;) for them. There will be two awards at SCQF Levels&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\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}