{"id":4454,"date":"2026-08-27T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:52:29","slug":"maintaining-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/maintaining-qualifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintaining qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This seems a good time to remind you about the process for asking for changes to qualifications. Qualifications are formally reviewed on a cycle but, between reviews, we maintain qualifications by considering small changes to them. So, if you want to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>propose a change to a group award<\/li>\n<li>propose a change to a unit<\/li>\n<li>suggest the creation of a new unit<\/li>\n<li>comment on an assessment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>there&#8217;s a process for that.<\/p>\n<p>If you complete <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.cloud.microsoft\/r\/50MtTMcxeQ\">this short form<\/a>, we will pass your proposed change(s) to the Qualifications Support Team (QST) for their consideration. QST comprises practicing teachers and meets once per session (in Spring of each year) so that changes, if approved, are implemented for the following session. You can see the changes that resulted from this year&#8217;s QST meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/approved-changes-to-qualifications-for-2026\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:emma.campos@qualifications.gov.scot\">contact Emma<\/a> if you need advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This seems a good time to remind you about the process for asking for changes to qualifications. Qualifications are formally reviewed on a cycle but, between reviews, we maintain qualifications by considering small changes to them. So, if you want to: propose a change to a group award propose a change to a unit suggest the creation of a new unit comment on an assessment there&#8217;s a process for that. If you complete this short form, we will pass your&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4457,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions\/4457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}