{"id":3464,"date":"2020-09-07T17:06:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T16:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2021-04-26T13:14:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T12:14:41","slug":"guidance-for-centres-for-session-2020-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/guidance-for-centres-for-session-2020-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidance for centres for session 2020\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SQA recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/95044.html\">published guidance<\/a> for session 2020\/21 relating to the assessment of vocational qualifications during the current pandemic. That page includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/files_ccc\/Supporting-the-delivery-and-assessment-of-HNVQ-in-2020-21.pdf\">a link<\/a> to general guidance for centres. The guidance provides detailed information for teachers, lecturers and trainers about how best to carry out assessment during the current conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Some subjects, because of their very practical nature, will be providing additional guidance relating to specific units that can&#8217;t follow this general advice. Subjects such as Construction, Dance and Sport present obvious challenges when it comes to remote assessment. Computing is <strong>not<\/strong> one of those subjects. We think that the general guidance will be sufficient for vocational Computing qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance is detailed about the approaches centres can take during the current session. It also points out that we&#8217;re happy to help if you need any advice. Please <a href=\"mailto:computing@sqa.org.uk\">contact the team<\/a> if you require any assistance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SQA recently published guidance for session 2020\/21 relating to the assessment of vocational qualifications during the current pandemic. That page includes a link to general guidance for centres. The guidance provides detailed information for teachers, lecturers and trainers about how best to carry out assessment during the current conditions. Some subjects, because of their very practical nature, will be providing additional guidance relating to specific units that can&#8217;t follow this general advice. Subjects such as Construction, Dance and Sport present&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464"}],"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=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3465,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions\/3465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}