{"id":599,"date":"2010-03-11T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2010\/03\/11\/awarding-body-forum-4\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:41:00","slug":"awarding-body-forum-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/awarding-body-forum-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Awarding Body Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended one of the quarterly meetings in London today when all of the qualification organisations involved in delivering qualifications linked to the Sector Skills Council (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-skills.com\/\">E-Skills<\/a>) meet to discuss issues relating to those qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>E-Skills used to be only responsible for NVQs and SVQs but over the years has got involved in a large number of IT initiatives. So today&#8217;s meeting covered a wide range of issues. SQA&#8217;s main involvement with E-Skills is through SVQs but we also work with E-Skills on a number of other projects and involve them in most of the validation events.<\/p>\n<p>Although most of the agenda is dominated by English matters (such as funding and accreditation), it&#8217;s a good opportunity to get up-to-date with national initiatives such as Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/itq.e-skills.com\/individuals\/gbbo\/\">Get British Business Online<\/a>. SQA plans to support this initiative in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:%20hilary.weir@sqa.org.uk\">Contact Hilary<\/a> if you want to know more about SVQs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended one of the quarterly meetings in London today when all of the qualification organisations involved in delivering qualifications linked to the Sector Skills Council (E-Skills) meet to discuss issues relating to those qualifications. E-Skills used to be only responsible for NVQs and SVQs but over the years has got involved in a large number of IT initiatives. So today&#8217;s meeting covered a wide range of issues. SQA&#8217;s main involvement with E-Skills is through SVQs but we also work&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\/599","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=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}