{"id":790,"date":"2008-08-14T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2008\/08\/14\/new-national-occupational-standards-for-it\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T10:54:00","slug":"new-national-occupational-standards-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/new-national-occupational-standards-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"New National Occupational Standards for IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>E-Skills UK (the Sector Skills Council for IT) has been working on an update to the National Occupational Standards (NOS) during the last few months. I&#8217;ve been involved in some behind-the-scenes discussions about the new Standards.<\/p>\n<p>I received notification today that the <a href=\"http:\/\/nos2008.e-skills.com\/\">draft Standards are now available for public consultation<\/a>. E-Skills would like your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/www.e-skills.com\/NOSsurvey\">feedback<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new Standards are important for many reasons. They underpin SVQs and, increasingly, other qualifications are expected to be &#8220;compatible&#8221; with them &#8211; so this development will affect all future IT awards.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about this project by contacting <a href=\"mailto:%20Genny.Dixon@e-skills.com\">Genny Dixon<\/a> directly or contact <a href=\"mailto:%20caroline.douglas@sqa.org.uk\">Caroline <\/a>if you want to know more about SVQs.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-Skills UK (the Sector Skills Council for IT) has been working on an update to the National Occupational Standards (NOS) during the last few months. I&#8217;ve been involved in some behind-the-scenes discussions about the new Standards. I received notification today that the draft Standards are now available for public consultation. E-Skills would like your feedback. The new Standards are important for many reasons. They underpin SVQs and, increasingly, other qualifications are expected to be &#8220;compatible&#8221; with them &#8211; so this&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\/790","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=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}