{"id":1465,"date":"2015-08-27T16:51:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T15:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2015-08-27T16:52:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T15:52:39","slug":"qdt-for-pda-software-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/qdt-for-pda-software-development\/","title":{"rendered":"QDT for PDA Software Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve previously announced<\/a> the development of a new PDA in Software Development<\/em>. The Qualification Development Team (QDT) met for the first time this morning in the Glasgow office. It’s a good team, consisting of representatives schools, colleges, universities, professional bodies and employers, with a wealth of knowledge and experience in this field.<\/p>\n\"QDT<\/a>\n

The meeting covered the role of the QDT, the qualification development process<\/a>, and tasks and timescales. We had a particularly good conversation about what should be in the qualification and possible structures. There was agreement on many things. The qualification should exist at various levels; it should be hierarchical; it should be “tight” and focus on software development;\u00a0and\u00a0it should have a simple structure. There was also a lot of agreement on what should be in it: software design, software implementation and software testing were all identified as key skills.<\/p>\n

The next stage is to identify a Lead Developer, who will have the job of driving the project forward.<\/p>\n

The qualification will be available to centres from January 2016. Contact Caroline<\/a> if you want to know more about this development or join the QDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve previously announced the development of a new PDA in Software Development. The Qualification Development Team (QDT) met for the first time this morning in the Glasgow office. It’s a good team, consisting of representatives schools, colleges, universities, professional bodies and employers, with a wealth of knowledge and experience in this field. The meeting covered the role of the QDT, the qualification development process, and tasks and timescales. We had a particularly good conversation about what should be in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,11,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465"}],"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=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}