Category: Education & Skills

CodeClan, Scotland’s national digital skills academy has pivoted to a virtual interactive classroom model via teams from its Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness campuses.  By deploying virtual classrooms, student cohorts totaling...

The project by Robotical, will see Marty kicking, dancing and walking into townships across South Africa and is aimed at reaching children in South Africa’s poorest areas, making coding and...

As part of its Skills for Tomorrow programme, BT has teamed up with Computing at School (CAS), to launch a range of activities, designed to assist parents develop their children’s...

National Progression Awards helping to ‘widen access’ to career in cyber security As schools and colleges embrace SQA’s portfolio of Cyber Security courses, employers can look to address the sector’s...

Leading tech nation Estonia is to provide a range of online educational tools to help keep children engaged during the coronavirus pandemic. The top-ranked digital state (No 1. in PISA...

Scotland’s STEM Bursary Scheme is being expanded this year to encourage more people to train as secondary school teachers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). That means 150 career...

Business, government and the education sector need to work more closely together in order to meet Scotland’s future skills needs, according to one of the country’s leading business organisations. There...

Scottish Finance Minister Kate Forbes visited the offices of a global consulting and tech giant on Monday – to mark the first day of Scottish Apprenticeship Week. Ms Forbes visited...

This week is Scottish Apprenticeship Week, an annual celebration of the positive impact work-based learning has on individuals, companies and the Scottish economy as a whole. Donald McLaughlin, Chair of...