{"id":887,"date":"2007-08-23T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2007\/08\/23\/computing-uptake-meeting\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T10:37:00","slug":"computing-uptake-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/computing-uptake-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Computing uptake meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a meeting at Jordanhill College yesterday afternoon about encouraging school pupils to choose Computing as a subject. This meeting was a follow-up to a two day workshop in May (that I did not attend).<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was chaired by Andrew McGettrick (Strathclyde University) and there were representatives of various universities (including Glasgow and Edinburgh) and national organisations (including <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>We had a fascinating discussion about various aspects of the issue and agreed a number of action points, including a response to the current consultation on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltscotland.org.uk\/curriculumforexcellence\/index.asp\">A Curriculum for Excellence<\/a>, to ensure the subject (and the whole &#8220;digital world&#8221;) is properly recognised.<\/p>\n<p>I was keen to attend this meeting since uptake in Computing\/IT at school has a knock-on effect at college, and I am <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/achievement-and-recruitment.html\">aware of concerns about falling uptake of HNC\/D Computing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a meeting at Jordanhill College yesterday afternoon about encouraging school pupils to choose Computing as a subject. This meeting was a follow-up to a two day workshop in May (that I did not attend). The meeting was chaired by Andrew McGettrick (Strathclyde University) and there were representatives of various universities (including Glasgow and Edinburgh) and national organisations (including Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland). We had a fascinating discussion about various aspects of the issue and agreed a number of&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\/887","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=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}