{"id":3513,"date":"2020-11-10T13:04:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T13:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2021-04-07T15:56:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T14:56:28","slug":"npa-computer-networks-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/npa-computer-networks-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NPA Computer Networks &#8211; Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This development has progressed well and is nearing completion. The revised Group Award has now been validated and the final steps for operationalising the award are now underway. The subject page for this award, which will include a link to the Group Award Specification, should be on the SQA website in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>As advised in a previous <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/npa-computer-networks-update\/\">post<\/a>, the three component units of this award were being revised. This work is now complete and there are links below to the revised unit specifications. These can also be found through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/controller?p_service=Front.searchUnits&amp;t=nq_unit,hn_unit,aq_unit,acd_unit,qcf_unit&amp;g=0&amp;q=&amp;r=\">Unit Search<\/a> facility on the SQA website:<\/p>\n<table>\n<caption>NPA Computer Networks Qualification Structure<\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"col\">Code<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\">Unit Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/files\/nq\/J51945.pdf\">J519 45<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Computing: Computer Networking Fundamentals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/files\/nq\/J51A45.pdf\">J51A 45<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Computing: Install and Maintain Computer Hardware<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/files\/nq\/J51B45.pdf\">J51B 45<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Computing: Install and Maintain Computer Software<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>We are about to commence the revision of the assessments for this award. E-Assessments will be produced for all three units. The assessments will be hosted on SOLAR and should be available to centres by Spring 2021.<\/p>\n<p>If you require further information about this award or have any queries, please do <a href=\"mailto:emma.campos@sqa.org.uk\">get in touch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This development has progressed well and is nearing completion. The revised Group Award has now been validated and the final steps for operationalising the award are now underway. The subject page for this award, which will include a link to the Group Award Specification, should be on the SQA website in the next few weeks. As advised in a previous post, the three component units of this award were being revised. This work is now complete and there are links&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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\/3513"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3695,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions\/3695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}