{"id":4285,"date":"2024-10-04T08:43:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T07:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2024-10-04T08:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T07:43:11","slug":"sqa-connections-npa-computing-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/sqa-connections-npa-computing-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"SQA Connections &#8212; NPA Computing Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of SQA&#8217;s annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/102548.html\">Connections<\/a> week, we had a session on the new National Progression Award (NPA) in Computing Technology. This qualification was developed last session and the lead developer (a practising teacher) delivered yesterday&#8217;s session. There was an excellent turnout, with 25 people in attendance, which illustrates the interest in this new qualification.<\/p>\n<p>I took the opportunity to let people know that <strong>the qualification is now validated<\/strong>! It&#8217;s taken a while but we got there. We&#8217;re now in the process of coding and publishing the group award, which will be done before the end of this month (October). All of the component units are <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/npa-computing-technology-units\/\">available now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:gayle.rennie@sqa.org.uk\">contact Gayle<\/a> if you want a copy of yesterday&#8217;s presentation or want to find out more about this award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of SQA&#8217;s annual Connections week, we had a session on the new National Progression Award (NPA) in Computing Technology. This qualification was developed last session and the lead developer (a practising teacher) delivered yesterday&#8217;s session. There was an excellent turnout, with 25 people in attendance, which illustrates the interest in this new qualification. I took the opportunity to let people know that the qualification is now validated! It&#8217;s taken a while but we got there. We&#8217;re now in&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\/4285","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=4285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}