Category: Education & Skills

A new up-skilling programme for computing science teachers being piloted in Scotland from today has been described by a former Skyscanner executive as ‘vital to the future of our tech…

A Scottish digital skills charity that supports kids’ tech development through extracurricular activities including coding clubs has opened its eighth funding round. Digital Xtra Fund – which has been running…

Scotland’s national digital skills academy is partnering with a recruitment firm to help its students find work in the tech sector following their graduation. CodeClan, which delivers intensive 16-week software…

A tech firm has partnered with a high school in Dumfriesshire to address local IT skills challenges. ETB Technologies has teamed up with Dalbeattie High School to create a new…

Scottish universities are developing some of the brightest minds when it comes to software engineering talent, a fact which was celebrated at a recent reception held in Holyrood on 2nd…

Scottish tech organisations are joining forces to try and bridge the digital skills gap. A new partnership has been formed by ScotlandIS, Tech She Can and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and…

A new chief executive has been appointed to run Scotland’s digital skills academy – vowing to ‘scale up’ the operation. Loral Quinn has said CodeClan will seek to close the…

Some of the UK’s most innovative ideas have come out of Scotland’s university sector. It is a rich catalogue of products and services that improve lives and safeguard our planet….

A Scottish charity backed by both the public and corporate sectors has awarded 35 grants totalling £150,000 to drive digital skills initiatives for young people across the country.  The Digital…