{"id":92,"date":"2014-11-25T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2014\/11\/25\/computing-at-school\/"},"modified":"2014-11-25T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T16:37:00","slug":"computing-at-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/computing-at-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Computing at School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the annual Computing at School Scotland event on Saturday, held at Napier University. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computingatschool.org.uk\/\">Computing at School<\/a> is a UK-wide organisation that aims to promote the teaching of Computing in schools. It is supported by BCS, Microsoft and Google.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s event was the usual interesting mix of talks and workshops. The keynote was given by Elizabeth Montgomery (HMIe) about the importance of computer science to the UK economy. A couple of the workshops related directly to SQA, including one on verification, presented by Ray Simpson, who is the Implementation Manager for CfE Computing Science.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-dNsAXxcR9eY\/VHSiKNGoZqI\/AAAAAAAAjB0\/fV3-zevTZXw\/s1600\/IMG_20141122_135452.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-dNsAXxcR9eY\/VHSiKNGoZqI\/AAAAAAAAjB0\/fV3-zevTZXw\/s1600\/IMG_20141122_135452.jpg\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Computing is one of the vocational subjects that is popular in schools. Qualifications such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/34586.html\">Internet Safety<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/38450.html\">PC Passport<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/38436.html\">Computer Games Development<\/a> have large uptakes in the school sector. <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/11\/digital-passport.html\">Digital Passport<\/a> is also proving to be of interest to many schools.<\/p>\n<p>The recent Education Working for All report emphasised the importance of vocational qualifications in schools (up to and including HNCs) and I hope to take this forward in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:liz.sinclair@sqa.org.uk\">Contact Liz<\/a> for more information about vocational qualifications for schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the annual Computing at School Scotland event on Saturday, held at Napier University. Computing at School is a UK-wide organisation that aims to promote the teaching of Computing in schools. It is supported by BCS, Microsoft and Google. Saturday&#8217;s event was the usual interesting mix of talks and workshops. The keynote was given by Elizabeth Montgomery (HMIe) about the importance of computer science to the UK economy. A couple of the workshops related directly to SQA, including one&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\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}