{"id":399,"date":"2011-09-28T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2011\/09\/28\/annual-update-letters\/"},"modified":"2011-09-28T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T10:56:00","slug":"annual-update-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/annual-update-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual update letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on my annual update letters over the last few days. They are now about to be dispatched to centres.&nbsp;Once per year I write two letters, one for non-advanced (NC\/NPA) awards and one for advanced (HN\/PDA) awards.<\/p>\n<p>The NC\/NPA letter (see below) contains information about a number of non-advanced awards, including recently developed NC qualifications. It also includes important information about the forthcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/nc-computer-games-development-qdt.html\">NC in Computer Games Development at SCQF Level 6<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The HN\/PDA letter (see below) contains information about the <a href=\"http:\/\/hnreview.blogspot.com\/\">HN Review<\/a> plus the latest changes to existing awards.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing in the letters (in fact, a lot less) that regular readers of this blog will not already know, but I am aware that there are teachers and lecturers who don&#8217;t read blogs or use social media.<\/p>\n<p>I plan to write a third letter about SVQs (to training centres and colleges) in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on my annual update letters over the last few days. They are now about to be dispatched to centres.&nbsp;Once per year I write two letters, one for non-advanced (NC\/NPA) awards and one for advanced (HN\/PDA) awards. The NC\/NPA letter (see below) contains information about a number of non-advanced awards, including recently developed NC qualifications. It also includes important information about the forthcoming NC in Computer Games Development at SCQF Level 6. The HN\/PDA letter (see below) contains&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\/399","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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}