{"id":859,"date":"2007-11-08T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2007\/11\/08\/qualification-and-credit-framework\/"},"modified":"2007-11-08T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T15:36:00","slug":"qualification-and-credit-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/qualification-and-credit-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualification and credit framework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England, Wales and Northern Ireland are creating a framework similar to Scotland&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scqf.org.uk\/\">SCQF <\/a>and I&#8217;ve been in London for a couple of days to get up-to-speed on developments. It&#8217;s been very interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qca.org.uk\/qca_8150.aspx\">Qualification &amp; Credit Framework<\/a> (QCF) has nine levels (SCQF has 12) and uses 10 hour credits (rather than SQA&#8217;s 40 hour credits). But the underlying principles are the same. Of course, it&#8217;s a major undertaking to standardise qualifications in such a complex environment as England (there are hundreds of awarding bodies for one thing) but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qca.org.uk\/aboutQCA.aspx\">QCA <\/a>appears to have made a lot of progress.<\/p>\n<p>One of the interesting aspects of the event was the location &#8211; Chelsea Football Club, which was a great meeting place and the stadium itself looked fantastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England, Wales and Northern Ireland are creating a framework similar to Scotland&#8217;s SCQF and I&#8217;ve been in London for a couple of days to get up-to-speed on developments. It&#8217;s been very interesting. The Qualification &amp; Credit Framework (QCF) has nine levels (SCQF has 12) and uses 10 hour credits (rather than SQA&#8217;s 40 hour credits). But the underlying principles are the same. Of course, it&#8217;s a major undertaking to standardise qualifications in such a complex environment as England (there are&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\/859","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=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}