Solving the digital skills gap
This year marks 10 years of QA apprenticeships. In the last decade, we have matched more than 8,000 young people with forward-thinking Scottish employers, today we have apprentices on programmes with...
Aberdeenshire school shares successes of remote learning
Lockdown has taken schools, teachers and students through an array of challenges. However, despite these hurdles, teachers have been able to realise some lasting benefits of remote learning. As principal...
Tech-minded students prepare to embark on an ‘edventure’
Twenty-seven startup companies are to be supported by a new data-driven innovation business support programme launched at the University of Edinburgh. The university’s Data-Driven Entrepreneurship Venture Builder Incubator will be...
Scottish tourism hotspot recreated in Minecraft to engage young students using game-based learning
Scottish university students have recreated one of the nation’s tourist hotspots in Minecraft as part of a new project using game-based learning to engage young people in Scottish culture. Students...
Scottish college ‘first in UK’ to partner with Microsoft to equip students with digital skills
A Scottish college has become the ‘first in the UK’ to team up with Microsoft to give free digital skills training to students, businesses and local communities to help them...
£25,000 donation made to digital prize fund to engage young digital-tech entrepreneurs
A £25,000 donation has been made to a digital fund that awards grants to boost interest in computing and technology among young people across Scotland. The contribution from Chroma Ventures,...
Scottish tech entrepreneur invests £27k in prize for digital media content creators
A Scottish tech entrepreneur has partnered with an Edinburgh university to create a £27,000 prize fund for digital media content creators. George Mackintosh, owner of Papple Steading in East Lothian,...
Stirling Council’s rollout of Chromebooks extended to P5 pupils
Stirling Council’s roll out of free Chromebooks has been expanded to now include all Primary five pupils. The latest development of the local authority’s ambitious digital drive means all children...
Every school pupil in Edinburgh to receive their own iPad in tech inclusion drive
Every school pupil from P6 to S6 in Scotland’s capital city will receive their own digital device as part of an ambitious and ‘inclusive’ education strategy, Edinburgh Learns for Life....
Data to bring harmony to opera and performing arts
Four of Scotland’s best known music and performing arts organisations are looking for creative entrepreneurs to collaborate with them on projects that could transform the way they work and produce...
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