48 hours in Elgin could be a game-changer for emerging developers
Teams of emerging game developers are being invited to sign up to one of Scotland’s most exciting industry events and create a new digital or board game over one intensive...
Prime Minister announces £20m Institute of Coding – but Scottish universities are left out in the cold
The next generation of digital specialists will be created through a new Institute of Coding, the UK Government has announced – a consortium of universities, businesses and industry experts are...
EduTech co-founded by Heriot-Watt graduate receives $1m Bitcoin donation
A non-profit, co-founded by a Heriot-Watt graduate, has received an anonymous donation of $1m from one of the world’s largest holders of Bitcoin. Quill, which helps children become better writers,...
Research partnership to promote STEM learning in prisons
Ground-breaking public engagement programme Cell Block Science, led by researchers at the University of St Andrews to deliver informal science learning to prisoners, receives £150k Wellcome Trust funding to roll-out...
Scots pupils win coding world first at 4 X 4 finals in Abu Dhabi
A team of Scottish schoolchildren has won an inaugural coding world champions’ trophy. Sponsorship from Brightwork, the Glasgow and Edinburgh based recruitment company, provided the Woodfarm High School pupils with...
Digital skills gap in small firms holding back productivity
Productivity growth in the UK will continue to stall without government and industry action to tackle a digital skills deficit in small businesses, according to new research from the Federation...
To catch a criminal, you’ve got to think like a criminal
To celebrate the return of this year’s Christmas Cyber Lectures, ethical hacking student Jack Wilson shares how he became inspired by cyber security, why he thinks like one of the literary world’s most...
Scotland’s AgriTech boosted by £2m investment in digital centre of excellence
SRUC, Scotland’s rural college, is investing £2m at Highlands and Islands Enterprises’s Inverness Campus to create the Centre of Excellence for Digital Agriculture and Animal Health, combining its strengths in veterinary...
Kelvinside Academy named as first digital secondary in UK and Ireland
Kelvinside Academy has won the race to become the first senior school in the UK and Ireland to earn a prestigious Digital Schools Award. The Digital Schools Awards commended the...
Christmas cyber lectures kick off tour of schools across Scotland today
From Stornoway to Edinburgh, Inverness to Glasgow, young people across the country are being inspired to choose a career in cyber security as the annual Christmas Cyber Lectures kick off their...
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