{"id":3194,"date":"2019-10-09T16:32:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T15:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2019-10-09T16:32:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T15:32:56","slug":"professional-development-awards-in-data-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/professional-development-awards-in-data-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Development Awards in Data Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to let you know that we&#8217;re about to commence the development of a new suite of <strong>Professional Development Awards (PDAs) in Data Science<\/strong>.\u00a0 The new awards will be available at <strong>SCQF Levels 7, 8 and 9.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This development follows the successful introduction of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/npa-data-science-subject-page-is-now-live\/\">new National Progression Awards in Data Science<\/a>, which has attracted a lot of interest from schools and colleges. At the end of the development, there will be national qualifications in data science available at SCQF Levels 4-9.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that these new awards will interest anyone who wants to improve their data skills &#8212; particularly people in employment who want to learn the tools and techniques of data analysis. It&#8217;s too early to predict what the awards will look like but the Level 7 qualification will be designed for beginners and the Level 9 for specialists.<\/p>\n<p>The development will follow the usual process &#8212; which commences with the creation of a Qualification Development Team (QDT). So, please consider volunteering for the QDT. We&#8217;re looking for representatives of industry, business, university, college and training providers. The time commitment is relatively small (a couple of face to face meetings).<\/p>\n<p>Emma is the lead officer for the development so please <a href=\"mailto:emma.campos@sqa.org.uk\">contact her<\/a> if you want to find out more or volunteer for the QDT. We hope to have the suite of awards available by the <strong>first quarter of 2020<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to let you know that we&#8217;re about to commence the development of a new suite of Professional Development Awards (PDAs) in Data Science.\u00a0 The new awards will be available at SCQF Levels 7, 8 and 9. This development follows the successful introduction of the new National Progression Awards in Data Science, which has attracted a lot of interest from schools and colleges. At the end of the development, there will be national qualifications in data science available 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\/3194"}],"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=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3195,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}