CodeClan celebrates its 500th student graduate during National Coding Week
CodeClan, Scotland’s first accredited digital skills academy, is marking National Coding Week with special events geared towards giving women a flavour of coding. This week sees a milestone as CodeClan…
Scotland’s first fintech skills academy launched in Fife
International fintech companies have partnered with Fife Council, Fife College, and Fintech Scotland, to launch Scotland’s first fintech skills academy. The consortium, which includes Renovite Technologies and Ingenico Group, officially…
Improving students’ sense of belonging
Abertay University’s defined purpose is “to offer transformational opportunities to everyone who has the ability to benefit from Abertay’s approach to university education” and we wish to “inspire and enable…
Heriot-Watt reaches Amazon Alexa Prize final, for the second year running
Heriot-Watt has reached the final of the international Amazon Alexa Prize for the second year running. The university will again be the only institution to represent the UK at the…
Digital Xtra Fund to award £75,000 to help boost digital skills in Scotland
A fresh round of funding will soon be available to inspire young people in Scotland to develop digital skills through high quality extra-curricular activities. On 30 August, the Digital Xtra…
Zonal supports Scotland’s next generation with Digital Xtra Fund
Technology firm Zonal has teamed up with Digital Xtra Fund to help fund technology initiatives for young people across Scotland. The funding will help guarantee that even more young people…
Codebase Stirling is celebrating its first birthday
CodeBase Stirling, the technology incubator home to more than a dozen companies employing around 80 staff, is celebrating its first year of operation – with a party on 30 August…
CityFibre partners with Scotland’s Xtra Fund to tackle digital skills gap
CityFibre, which has created gigabit networks in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Stirling, is partnering with Digital Xtra Fund as part of a commitment to help young people across the country….
Challenging the boundaries of traditional education at summer camp in Glasgow
More than 20 youngsters from schools across Scotland have taken part in a ground-breaking summer camp where pupils designed and built their own robots, culminating in an epic ‘battlebotics’ contest….
Retraining for a career in tech; who should pay?
With all the recent studies, reports and news stories about Scotland’s and in particularly, Edinburgh’s booming tech sector, how much thought has been given to how and who is going…
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