{"id":2033,"date":"2016-10-31T11:11:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T11:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2021-04-07T12:24:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T11:24:41","slug":"external-verifier-meeting-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/external-verifier-meeting-4\/","title":{"rendered":"External Verifier meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team of External Verifiers (EVs) met on Saturday in the SQA offices in Glasgow. The EVs meet once per year for a &#8220;standardisation&#8221; meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to ensure that the verifiers apply the same standards to centres when they carry out verification visits.\u00a0It was a good meeting and we covered a lot of ground.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20161029_100701.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2034 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20161029_100701-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Saturday External Verifiers meeting around board meeting table at SQA\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20161029_100701-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20161029_100701-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20161029_100701-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20161029_100701-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20161029_100701.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>The team consists of 10 EVs, led by the Senior External Verifier. The EVs are selected from colleges, universities, schools and training centres. I&#8217;m currently short of school and university representation so please <a href=\"mailto:helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk\">let Helen\u00a0know<\/a> if you are interested in serving in either of these roles. Working as an EV is great CPD for educationalists since it gives you a unique insight into standards across Scotland (and internationally) and will help you meet those standards in your own centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team of External Verifiers (EVs) met on Saturday in the SQA offices in Glasgow. The EVs meet once per year for a &#8220;standardisation&#8221; meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to ensure that the verifiers apply the same standards to centres when they carry out verification visits.\u00a0It was a good meeting and we covered a lot of ground. The team consists of 10 EVs, led by the Senior External Verifier. The EVs are selected from colleges, universities, schools and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3675,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/3675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}