Category: Education & Skills

A £6.7 million digital network is set to improve access to training for students from across the south of Scotland. The Skills and Learning Network is a partnership between Borders…

Girls from Nicola Sturgeon’s former school have been named Scotland’s ‘champion codebreakers’ after winning a government cyber competition. S2 pupils from Greenwood Academy in Irvine came first among nine Scottish…

A festival which celebrates the world of technology and digital is on a mission to futureproof young people against a rapidly changing world of work. MetaFest, which is conceived and…

A policy which sees around 1,000 laptops issued each year to new pupils starting their high school careers has been praised by Scotland’s Deputy First Minister. John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary…

The Scottish Government is to donate 1,000 computers no longer suitable for corporate use to educational projects in Malawi. Teachers and students in the African country – which has close…

More than 100 career changers have received bursaries of up to £20,000 each to start as teachers in key technical subjects in Scottish schools. New figures have revealed that 107…

Two mums from Edinburgh have launched a crowdfunding campaign for a new app designed to improve financial literacy levels among children. Tynah Matembe and Helene Rodger have developed family finance management…

Over 35 educators at the City of Glasgow College have received training from Amazon under its global AWS Educate initiative. Under AWS Educate, educational institutions, educators, and students are provided…

Edinburgh Napier University has been gifted equipment and software by California-based software-as-a-service (Saa) company Trimble to establish a state-of-the-art Technology Lab for architecture, engineering and construction (AEC).  The lab will…