{"id":779,"date":"2008-09-11T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2008\/09\/11\/awarding-body-forum-6\/"},"modified":"2008-09-11T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T19:00:00","slug":"awarding-body-forum-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/awarding-body-forum-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Awarding Body Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I spent today in London, attending an Awarding Body Forum, which is hosted by E-Skills UK. The purpose of these meetings is to provide a communication channel between the Sector Skills Council for IT (E-Skills) and the awarding bodies that provide IT qualifications across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Although much of the agenda inevitably relates to England, they are always interesting meetings and it&#8217;s a good way for me to keep up to date with UK-wide developments. Today&#8217;s agenda included developments at E-Skills, news about a revised GCSE in IT, Modern Apprenticeships, and an update on progress with the revised National Occupational Standards.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent today in London, attending an Awarding Body Forum, which is hosted by E-Skills UK. The purpose of these meetings is to provide a communication channel between the Sector Skills Council for IT (E-Skills) and the awarding bodies that provide IT qualifications across the UK. Although much of the agenda inevitably relates to England, they are always interesting meetings and it&#8217;s a good way for me to keep up to date with UK-wide developments. Today&#8217;s agenda included developments at&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\/779","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=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}