{"id":2670,"date":"2018-07-09T11:13:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T10:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2018-07-09T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T10:13:12","slug":"new-data-science-qualification-for-schools-and-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/new-data-science-qualification-for-schools-and-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"New data science qualification for schools and colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to let you know that we will be developing a new suite of qualifications in data science. The qualification will be a <strong>National Progression Award in Data Science<\/strong> and will be available at three levels &#8211; SCQF Level 4 (National 4), SCQF Level 5 (National 5) and SCQF Level 6 (Higher). As far as we can tell, this will be the first national qualification in data science, designed for schools, anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Data science is a vital, and booming, sector within the Scottish, UK and global economies. The first task is to create a Qualification Development Team (QDT) that will be responsible for determining the structure and contents of the qualification. We&#8217;ve already had interest from national agencies, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedatalab.com\/\">DataLab<\/a>. I hope to create the QDT over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Given the success of previous NPAs, such as <em>Cyber Security<\/em> and <em>Computer Games Development<\/em>, we&#8217;ve gained a lot of experience of developing this kind of qualification so I am hopeful that we will be able to develop it rapidly and have it available to schools and colleges from <strong>August 2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:claudia.lambie@sqa.org.uk\">contact Claudia<\/a> if you want to know more about the development or volunteer to serve on the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to let you know that we will be developing a new suite of qualifications in data science. The qualification will be a National Progression Award in Data Science and will be available at three levels &#8211; SCQF Level 4 (National 4), SCQF Level 5 (National 5) and SCQF Level 6 (Higher). As far as we can tell, this will be the first national qualification in data science, designed for schools, anywhere in the world. Data science is a&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\/2670"}],"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=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2671,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions\/2671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}