{"id":1765,"date":"2016-02-25T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2021-08-10T13:39:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T12:39:17","slug":"codeclan-press-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/codeclan-press-day\/","title":{"rendered":"CodeClan press day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made my first visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/codeclan.com\/\">CodeClan <\/a>yesterday. CodeClan has recently became an SQA centre and is offering the new <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/pda-software-development-is-now-live\/\">PDA in Software Development<\/a> to its students. It&#8217;s the first centre of this type in the world (there are similar ones in cities across the world) to offer a national qualifications to learners. I was asked along to participate in a press day and also to provide advice about assessment.<\/p>\n<p>I was impressed with the facilities and the dedication of the learners. There were various groups of students (&#8220;cohorts&#8221;) working at various stages of their programme.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/codeclan-students.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1767\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1767\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/codeclan-students-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"codeclan students\" width=\"366\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/codeclan-students-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/codeclan-students-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/codeclan-students-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/codeclan-students-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/codeclan-students.jpg 1378w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>CodeClan provides a short (16 week) intensive programme of learning to produce &#8220;job ready&#8221; coders who can immediately do a job in the workplace. Every student is given the opportunity to do the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/76242.html\">PDA <\/a>at one of the three levels.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk\">contact Helen<\/a> if you want to know more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/pda-software-development-is-now-live\/\">PDA in Software Development<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made my first visit to CodeClan yesterday. CodeClan has recently became an SQA centre and is offering the new PDA in Software Development to its students. It&#8217;s the first centre of this type in the world (there are similar ones in cities across the world) to offer a national qualifications to learners. I was asked along to participate in a press day and also to provide advice about assessment. I was impressed with the facilities and the dedication of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765"}],"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=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3834,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/3834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}