{"id":3268,"date":"2019-12-23T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T12:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2019-12-23T12:20:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T12:20:07","slug":"happy-christmas-from-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/happy-christmas-from-the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Christmas from the team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We stop today and return on Monday, 6 January. The team would like to wish you a Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had a busy year. Helen and Emma returned from maternity leave this year, returning the team to normal after Claudia, Caitlin and Lorraine provided cover. Caitlin and Lorraine found permanent positions within SQA and Claudia became a teacher.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Computing Conference <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/computing-conference-2019-3\/\">took place in February<\/a>. The early part of the year saw us working on HND Cyber Security and NPA Data Science. The validation event for NPA Data Science <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/npa-data-science-validation-event\/\">took place in May<\/a>. HND Cyber Security was <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/hnd-cyber-security-subject-page\/\">made available to centres in August<\/a> as was <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/npa-data-science-subject-page-is-now-live\/\">NPA Data Science<\/a>. We also commenced the development of PDA Cyber Security the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/pda-cyber-security\/\">same month<\/a>. In October we <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/professional-development-awards-in-data-science\/\">announced the development of PDA Data Science<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/sector-panel-meeting-11\/\">annual meeting of the Sector Panel took place<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/upgraded-materials-for-npa-cyber-security-are-coming\/\">upgraded support materials for NPA Cyber Security<\/a> were published in November.<\/p>\n<p>We wish everyone a nice holiday. See you all next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We stop today and return on Monday, 6 January. The team would like to wish you a Merry Christmas. We&#8217;ve had a busy year. Helen and Emma returned from maternity leave this year, returning the team to normal after Claudia, Caitlin and Lorraine provided cover. Caitlin and Lorraine found permanent positions within SQA and Claudia became a teacher. The annual Computing Conference took place in February. The early part of the year saw us working on HND Cyber Security 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\/3268"}],"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=3268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3269,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions\/3269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}