{"id":2870,"date":"2018-11-19T11:46:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T11:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2018-11-19T11:46:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T11:46:50","slug":"npa-data-science-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/npa-data-science-update\/","title":{"rendered":"NPA Data Science update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re making a lot of progress with this qualification. We now have a <a href=\"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/w\/s!Av71_tveB0_uhdk_ocDtPZ21DRBJJg\">draft qualification structure<\/a>, and unit writers (and vetters) have now been selected.<\/p>\n<p>Although the structure isn&#8217;t finalised (yet), the final form of the award won&#8217;t be a million miles away from <a href=\"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/w\/s!Av71_tveB0_uhdk_ocDtPZ21DRBJJg\">this<\/a>. Most of the debate has been around the options, so we&#8217;ve taken a belt-and-braces approach and included all of the ideas that were being discussed. I&#8217;m fairly confident that the mandatory units will survive (at least until validation). I like the approach that the QDT has taken, with a &#8220;hard core&#8221; unit (Data Science) and a softer, more social unit (Data Citizenship). These units, I think, will also make attractive stand-alone units. Unit writing training takes place in early December and, after that, it&#8217;s full steam ahead.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to get enquiries about the likely availability of this new qualification. I hope to validate the award in Spring (March\/April) next year and have it <strong>available to centres from 1 August<\/strong>. I know some schools have already expressed an interest in offering it next session and, rest assured, that it will be available by that time.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:lorraine.mcfadyen@sqa.org.uk\">contact Lorraine<\/a> if you want to know more about this development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re making a lot of progress with this qualification. We now have a draft qualification structure, and unit writers (and vetters) have now been selected. Although the structure isn&#8217;t finalised (yet), the final form of the award won&#8217;t be a million miles away from this. Most of the debate has been around the options, so we&#8217;ve taken a belt-and-braces approach and included all of the ideas that were being discussed. I&#8217;m fairly confident that the mandatory units will survive (at&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\/2870"}],"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=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}