{"id":16823,"date":"2017-08-07T17:25:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T16:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/?p=16823"},"modified":"2017-08-07T17:25:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T16:25:58","slug":"are-you-awards-aware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2017\/08\/07\/are-you-awards-aware\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you Awards Aware?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2017\/08\/AwNet-Alpha.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16824 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2017\/08\/AwNet-Alpha-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>The Awards Network\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/briefing.youthlinkscotland.org\/c\/1iTxtpYX6jn1zt4c1zAH97ms\">Awards Aware<\/a> Scheme and new website will be formally launched by Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP, Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science at an event to be held at Leith Academy on 31\u00a0August 2017. Being Awards Aware demonstrates a commitment to recognise and value the skills and achievements gained by young people through youth awards.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awardsnetwork.org\/about\">Awards Network<\/a> website provides information on non-formal learning awards and programmes from (currently) 26 member organisations, highlighting learning outcomes and impact. Adding to learner journey options are credit-rated awards such as Youth Scotland\u2019s Youth Achievement Awards, YouthLink Scotland\u2019s Participative Democracy Certificate and SQA Employability Awards; programme awards, including the John Muir Award, The Duke of Edinburgh&#8217;s Award and Queen\u2019s Scout Award; participation and nominated awards such as the Saltire Award and Young Scot Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Further information at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awardsnetwork.org.uk\/\">www.awardsnetwork.org.uk<\/a>; e: <a href=\"mailto:contact@awardsnetwork.org\">contact@awardsnetwork.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Awards Network\u2019s Awards Aware Scheme and new website will be formally launched by Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP, Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science at an event to be held at Leith Academy on 31\u00a0August 2017. Being Awards Aware demonstrates a commitment to recognise and value the skills and achievements gained by young people through youth awards. The Awards Network website provides information on non-formal learning awards and programmes<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2017\/08\/07\/are-you-awards-aware\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[223,224,225,54,226,8,118,227,52],"class_list":["post-16823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skills","tag-achievement","tag-awards","tag-duke-of-edinburgh","tag-dyw","tag-john-muir-award","tag-partnership-working","tag-qualifications","tag-saltire-award","tag-skills-for-learning-life-and-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}