{"id":1739,"date":"2016-02-09T13:19:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T13:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2016-02-09T13:19:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T13:19:18","slug":"safer-internet-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/safer-internet-day-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Safer Internet Day 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saferinternet.org.uk\/safer-internet-day\/2016\">Safer Internet Day<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saferinternet.org.uk\/\">Safer Internet Centre <\/a>is launching a number of initiatives in support of the day. SQA is supporting the day too with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/76165.html\">webpage <\/a>explaining the qualifications that are available to protect learners from online threats.<\/p>\n<p>SQA was the first awarding body in the UK to offer a national qualification in online safety (in 2007) and we&#8217;re the first qualification authority in Europe to offer cyber security qualifications to school-age learners.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/34586.html\">Award in Internet Safety <\/a>is offered by lots of schools &#8212; including some schools that ensure that every pupil undertakes it. I&#8217;m hoping that the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/75487.html\">Award in Cyber Security Fundamentals <\/a>becomes equally popular. The recently devised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/74738.html\">NPAs in Cyber Security <\/a>are more specialised and provide a foundation for a career in this critical field.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk\">contact Helen <\/a>for more information about online safety or cyber security qualifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Safer Internet Day. The Safer Internet Centre is launching a number of initiatives in support of the day. SQA is supporting the day too with a webpage explaining the qualifications that are available to protect learners from online threats. SQA was the first awarding body in the UK to offer a national qualification in online safety (in 2007) and we&#8217;re the first qualification authority in Europe to offer cyber security qualifications to school-age learners. The Award in Internet&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,37,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739"}],"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=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}