Category: Education & Skills

A national schools challenge could be launched by V&A Dundee when it opens in 2018A school desk that generates electricity from the restless energy of children, an anti-bullying robot, a…

Girl Geek Scotland launches mentoring programmeCareers in digital technology have rarely been straightforward. In my working life we have seen the arrivalof the home PC; the domination of the web…

Lockheed Martin is taking on 10 paid interns this summer, at its offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, in a partnership with Career Ready UK. Career Ready helps school children…

The increasing skills gap in the technology sector has often been highlighted by initiatives such as Code Club, Hour of Code – and recently the BBC micro:bit. However, all these…

The co-founder of a volunteer-staffed programming club explains why they take a different approach to the curriculum I hear discussions about who or what or how we should be teaching…

Parents are the key to creating a technology talent pipelineScotland in 2016 is a hotbed of digital sector success stories. Global firms such as Skyscanner and Fanduel were launched in…

How Scotland’s new national academy is transforming lives… and the employment market A former fish delivery driver, two Tesco workers, a business consultant for an audio visual company and a…