The team would like to welcome you back for session 2023\/24. We hope that you had a nice summer holiday.<\/p>\n
The coming session is shaping up to be a busy and interesting year.\u00a0NPA Data Science<\/strong> is being reviewed<\/a> to address some of the issues that have been identified since it was first introduced in 2019. Data science is a vital discipline for Scotland and it’s pleasing to see the relatively rapid growth of this qualification since then. At the very end of last session, I announced<\/a> that we will be developing a new broad-based vocational qualification in Computing (working title:\u00a0NPA Computing<\/strong>) during the coming year. We will be progressing this qualification at pace in the coming weeks and months.\u00a0NPA Esports<\/strong> was developed last year <\/a>but this session will be the first full year for this exciting new award. You can find out more about this qualification by reading the FAQ<\/a>.\u00a0We also developed a suite of new vocational diplomas<\/a> last year and we’re expecting these to be popular this session. The modernisation of Higher National Qualifications (HNQs) continues with two pilot centres testing the new qualifications. Look out for a comprehensive update about this important work in the coming days.<\/p>\n You can see the entire portfolio of vocational Computing qualifications here<\/a>. I’ll update the diagram shortly so that it captures the changes described above.<\/p>\n Finally, we hope that you join us on Yammer<\/a>. We’re going to focus our support efforts on that platform this year so please join the network. Of course, you can contact us at computing@sqa.org.uk<\/a> at any time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The team would like to welcome you back for session 2023\/24. We hope that you had a nice summer holiday. The coming session is shaping up to be a busy and interesting year.\u00a0NPA Data Science is being reviewed to address some of the issues that have been identified since it was first introduced in 2019. Data science is a vital discipline for Scotland and it’s pleasing to see the relatively rapid growth of this qualification since then. At the very…<\/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\/4135","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=4135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}