{"id":412,"date":"2011-08-19T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/2011\/08\/19\/using-the-right-unit-specification\/"},"modified":"2011-08-19T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T15:29:00","slug":"using-the-right-unit-specification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/using-the-right-unit-specification\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the right unit specification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent most of this afternoon proof reading the annual reports from the Senior Verifiers for my subject areas. I&#8217;ll post something about these reports later, but one comment seems particularly appropriate at this time of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Senior Verifier for Computing commented that <i>&#8220;there were several instances of centres not using the latest versions of unit specifications&#8221;<\/i>. It&#8217;s pretty fundamental that you are using the latest unit spec. You should &nbsp;download the current version of unit specifications from the SQA website. You can search for HN units <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/controller?p_service=Front.searchHN&amp;g=0&amp;t=hn_unit&amp;q=&amp;r=&amp;pContentID=411&amp;pMenuID=117\">here <\/a>or NC units <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/controller?p_service=Front.searchNQ&amp;amp;g=0&amp;amp;t=nq_unit&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;r=&amp;amp;pContentID=3&amp;pMenuID=133\">here<\/a>. We also maintain a list of changes to HN units <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/42761.html\">here<\/a>. Please check you&#8217;re teaching the right unit!<\/p>\n<p>The EV reports are published later in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent most of this afternoon proof reading the annual reports from the Senior Verifiers for my subject areas. I&#8217;ll post something about these reports later, but one comment seems particularly appropriate at this time of the year. The Senior Verifier for Computing commented that &#8220;there were several instances of centres not using the latest versions of unit specifications&#8221;. It&#8217;s pretty fundamental that you are using the latest unit spec. You should &nbsp;download the current version of unit specifications from&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\/412"}],"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=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}