{"id":4290,"date":"2024-10-30T16:17:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T16:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=4290"},"modified":"2024-10-30T16:17:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T16:17:48","slug":"npa-computing-technology-is-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/npa-computing-technology-is-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"NPA Computing Technologies is now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted to let you know that NPA Computing Technologies is now available to Scottish schools and colleges. Here are the subject pages for each level:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/NPA Computing Technologies Level 4\">NPA Computing Technologies Level 4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/112109.html\">NPA Computing Technologies Level 5<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/112110.html\">NPA Computing Technologies Level 6<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find the Group Award Specification (GAS) for each level on each page. The GAS contains important information about the qualification structure, contents, delivery and assessment.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/npa-computing-technology-units\/\">previously posted links<\/a> to each of the units within the qualification.<\/p>\n<p>My apologies for the delay in making this qualification available. I had hoped to have it ready for the start of term but we had to deal with a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/npa-computing-technology\/\">number of validation conditions<\/a>. I&#8217;d like to publicly thank everyone involved in this development, especially members of the Qualification Development Team and Validation Panel.<\/p>\n<p>A number of centres are offering the qualification this year and I expect that to grow significantly in the coming years since there&#8217;s been a great deal of interest in this new qualification.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:gayle.rennie@sqa.org.uk\">contact Gayle<\/a> for more information about this award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted to let you know that NPA Computing Technologies is now available to Scottish schools and colleges. Here are the subject pages for each level: NPA Computing Technologies Level 4 NPA Computing Technologies Level 5 NPA Computing Technologies Level 6 You&#8217;ll find the Group Award Specification (GAS) for each level on each page. The GAS contains important information about the qualification structure, contents, delivery and assessment. We&#8217;ve previously posted links to each of the units within the qualification. My&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\/4290","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=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}