{"id":4101,"date":"2023-03-28T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2023-03-28T10:53:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T09:53:00","slug":"diploma-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/diploma-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Diploma updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you know from <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/diploma-in-digital-technology-at-scqf-level-8\/\">previous posts<\/a>, the new Diploma in Digital Technology at SCQF Level 8 has replaced the existing level 8 diplomas in Data Analytics (GL30 48) and Information Security Professionals (GJ74 48).<\/p>\n<p>We are currently developing 3 new pathways for the Diploma in Digital Technology at SCQF Level 8, these are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diploma in Digital Technology: Cloud Infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>Diploma in Digital Technology: IT Support<\/li>\n<li>Diploma in Digital Technology: Network Infrastructure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The above pathways will replace our current level 8 Diploma in Information Technology and Telecommunications Professionals (GL2T 48), which has been extended and will now go into lapsing on <strong>31\/10\/2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We are also currently developing 5 new pathways for the Diploma in Digital Technology at SCQF Level 6, these are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diploma in Digital Technology: Cyber Security<\/li>\n<li>Diploma in Digital Technology: Data Analytics<\/li>\n<li>Diploma in Digital Technology: Infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>Diploma in Digital Technology: IT Support<\/li>\n<li>Diploma in Digital Technology: Software Development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The above 5 pathways will replace our current level 6 diplomas in Information Security Professionals (GJ75 46) and in Information Technology and Telecommunications Professionals (GL2R 46), both of which have been extended and will now go into lapsing on <strong>31\/10\/2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As for our level 5 diploma in Information Technology and Telecommunications Professionals (GL2L 45). We have extended this for a further year, therefore meaning that it will now go into lapsing on <strong>30\/04\/2024<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We hope to have the diplomas currently being developed available to centres in the Spring.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please don\u2019t hesitate to contact <a href=\"mailto:megan.sharkey@sqa.org.uk\">me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know from previous posts, the new Diploma in Digital Technology at SCQF Level 8 has replaced the existing level 8 diplomas in Data Analytics (GL30 48) and Information Security Professionals (GJ74 48). We are currently developing 3 new pathways for the Diploma in Digital Technology at SCQF Level 8, these are: Diploma in Digital Technology: Cloud Infrastructure Diploma in Digital Technology: IT Support Diploma in Digital Technology: Network Infrastructure The above pathways will replace our current level 8&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/4101"}],"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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4102,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions\/4102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}