Category: Education & Skills

A scheme promoting excellence in digital learning and teaching, is to be offered to Scottish secondary schools with the aim of equipping pupils with cutting-edge digital skills.  The Digital Schools…

Echo360, the academic video platform used by more than three million students in 30 countries, has announced a partnership with Edinburgh University “to improve the student experience by leveraging technology…

Global telecommunications company Huawei have partnered with the University of Edinburgh to to create a Distributed Data Management and Processing Laboratory in the School of Informatics. The lab will conduct open…

Programme to cover security governance, risk and compliance departmentsIn addition to the 35 apprentices that digital services company Atos employs at its centre of excellence in Moray, the company is…

A system for ‘taming’ data is a huge first step in raising attainment in schoolsSchools generate a lot of data. Tests, homework, behaviour scores to name but a few. Each…

An Aberdeen primary school has shown how technology can transform children’s learning“It’s all about creativity, collabora- tion and problem solving,” said Jenny Watson, head of Middleton Park primary school in…

Scotland has a historic friendship with Malawi, dating back more than 150 years to the travels of Dr David Livingstone. Today, there are more than 1,000 civic links between the…

Alan Turing’s legacy brings a computer classroom to MalawiIt’s 12.30pm and for once the Edinburgh weather is being kind: not sunny, but it’s not raining. In a tiny courtyard in…

Aims to develop skills for lifeChildren and teachers will be supported to work more with digital tools in the classroom, said Deputy First Minister John Swinney. The Scottish Government unveiled…