{"id":1065,"date":"2005-08-02T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/2005\/08\/02\/100-grant-for-it-training\/"},"modified":"2005-08-02T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T14:05:00","slug":"100-grant-for-it-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/100-grant-for-it-training\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a3100 grant for IT training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theherald.co.uk\/\">Herald <\/a>has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theherald.co.uk\/politics\/44062.html\">front page story <\/a>about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilascotland.org.uk\/ILA+Homepage.htm\">Individual Learning Accounts<\/a>. Every adult in Scotland is now entitled to a \u00a3100 grant towards certificated IT training up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scqf.org.uk\/\">SCQF <\/a>level 5 (Intermediate 2).<\/p>\n<p>A wide range of Computing awards can be used &#8212; but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/sqa_nu_display.jsp?pContentID=2745&amp;p_applic=CCC&amp;p_service=Content.show&amp;\">PC Passport <\/a>(at Intermediate 1\/2 levels) is particularly suitable. The low cost of PC Passport should mean that centres can effectively offer this qualification for \u00a310 (the minimum charge) &#8211; which will make it hugely attractive to prospective students.<\/p>\n<p>Centres should expect a big increase in interest when they are enrolling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Herald has a front page story about Individual Learning Accounts. Every adult in Scotland is now entitled to a \u00a3100 grant towards certificated IT training up to SCQF level 5 (Intermediate 2). A wide range of Computing awards can be used &#8212; but PC Passport (at Intermediate 1\/2 levels) is particularly suitable. The low cost of PC Passport should mean that centres can effectively offer this qualification for \u00a310 (the minimum charge) &#8211; which will make it hugely attractive&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}