{"id":3057,"date":"2019-05-17T13:40:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T12:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2019-05-17T13:40:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T12:40:36","slug":"npa-data-science-validation-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/npa-data-science-validation-event\/","title":{"rendered":"NPA Data Science validation event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The validation event for NPA Data Science took place yesterday. I&#8217;m pleased to let you know that it went well.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of validation is to permit an independent group of experts to scrutinise a proposed qualification. Yesterday&#8217;s panel included representatives of universities (St Andrew&#8217;s), colleges (North Lanarkshire), schools (Dumfries &amp; Galloway Council), national organisations (DataLab) and employers (Skills Development Scotland).<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20190516_161559.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3058\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20190516_161559-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20190516_161559-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20190516_161559-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20190516_161559-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20190516_161559-600x292.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>The development team and panel had positive discussions about the qualification. The panel was enthusiastic about the qualification, and one of the conditions related to making it more attractive to a wider range of learners &#8212; something that we&#8217;re happy to do. We also have some work to do to finalise the component units, which we will do over the next couple of weeks. The validation event is a milestone in the development of a new qualification so, now it&#8217;s over, we can focus on making the award available to centres.<\/p>\n<p>The required changes won&#8217;t take long to carry out so I hope to have the new suite of qualifications validated by <strong>June<\/strong> and available to centres from <strong>August<\/strong>. I know that some centres plan to offer this qualification next session so we&#8217;ll make sure that everything is available before then. In the meantime, you could read the <a href=\"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/b\/s!Av71_tveB0_uht5Llo9CyrlukEerPw\">qualification FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:lorraine.mcfadyen@sqa.org.uk\">contact Lorraine<\/a> if you want to know more about this qualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The validation event for NPA Data Science took place yesterday. I&#8217;m pleased to let you know that it went well. The purpose of validation is to permit an independent group of experts to scrutinise a proposed qualification. Yesterday&#8217;s panel included representatives of universities (St Andrew&#8217;s), colleges (North Lanarkshire), schools (Dumfries &amp; Galloway Council), national organisations (DataLab) and employers (Skills Development Scotland). The development team and panel had positive discussions about the qualification. The panel was enthusiastic about the qualification, and&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\/3057"}],"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=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3059,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions\/3059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}