Hearts football club sets up innovation centre to help community with digital skills
Hearts football club has established an innovation centre to help improve the digital skills base of the local community. The club’s new digital outreach programme is designed to help young…
First Minister launches new app for teen readers
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has launched an app designed to encourage teenagers to ‘read for pleasure’. Bookzilla has been developed by Scottish Book Trust, the national charity transforming lives through…
Professor Bill Buchanan: ‘We are creating a nation of tech users who have little understanding of what lies underneath.’
In the week that marks the 38th birthday of the IBM PC, we are possibly at our lowest point in trying to engage our next generation into computer science. In Computer…
Non-profit seeking to create first Scottish coding workshop for prisoners at HMP Edinburgh
A non-profit is seeking financial support to create its first Scottish coding workshop for prisoners. Code4000, which works with prisons across the UK, aims to bring its methods north of…
Slight increase in top-performing computer science students at Higher level as exam results released – but with some major caveats
The number of top-performing students who achieved an A grade in their computing science Highers showed a 2.7% rise, according to national exam results released in Scotland today, which also…
Online careers support service launched as students prepare for exam results day
An online careers support service has been launched in anticipation of young people receiving their exam results in Scotland. Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) Glasgow has developed an online resource…
World’s first 1:1 whole school iPad pioneer switches to Google Chromebook
A trailblazing Scots IT teacher whose school became the ‘world’s first’ to introduce iPads at a 1:1 ratio to all pupils has made the decision to quit Apple products. Fraser…
Scotland’s newest high school to lock down pupils’ phones as part of social media ‘detox’ plan
A brand new £32.5m high school which will among the most technologically advanced in Scotland is to ban pupils from bringing their phones to class. Bertha Park High School in…
Foundation Apprenticeships help equip students with vital digital skills and provide a pathway into tech careers
Welcome to the latest monthly column from Donald McLaughlin, Chair of SDS’ Digital Technology Skills Group, where he will give his personal perspective on some of the challenges impacting the tech sector…
Billionaire philanthropists donate $7.5m to Glasgow University’s bid to become world-leading precision medicine hub
A billionaire philanthropist couple have donated $7.5m to Glasgow University’s bid to become a world-leading hub for precision medicine. Husband and wife John and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, whose biopharma firm Biocon is India’s…
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