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How do we integrate the lessons learned since March 2020 and build on the existing abundance of material to “construct a really cracking educational experience to ensure that lifelong learning is ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Abby Xiaotong Su, graduate software engineer at a large e-commerce company, talks about her unexpected route into tech, and discusses the many roads into ...

Most of the skills in demand today will need updating inside a couple of years. Lockdown saw massive advances in the use of on-line content, support and mentoring but it also opened massive divides ...

I should add that I too am interesting in life-long learning but that is not enough. It can be a gateway to training but learning the theory of tennis is not sufficient to produce a winner, let ...

In the light of the forthcoming party conferences, and rumoured reshuffles, I hope the Government can quickly move on to making the UK once again a world-leader in technological education and ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed post, Cloud9 Insight CEO Carlene Jackson explains why she recently told an All-Party Parliamentary Group the UK needs to create a ‘one-stop-shop’ for apprenticeships ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Andrew Proctor, pro vice chancellor for digital at Staffordshire University, discusses how closing the digital divide in the UK could contribute towards ...

COVID has exposed our failure to bring education into the 21st century. The Open School concept is an ideal way of facilitating best practice (both online and face to face) in blended learning. It  ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Layla Porter, senior developer evangelist at Twilio, talks about how in many cases developers are now self-taught.  Coding is becoming an in-demand skill ...

There are those who write papers predicting the future. There are prophets whose followers demonstrate and delay change by getting in its way. Far rarer are those who envision the future and gently ...

The front-end to the furlough programme should therefore package and link to all other current and proposed education, training and support programmes in ways that make sense to the target ...

Package and promote current and proposed education, training and support programmes in ways that make sense to the target audiences. Those which compete, conflict or cannot be understood should be ...

Hands up anyone who expected not just to spend 2020 at home, but to spend much of it on video too. Many of us will have shunned the Lidless Eye of the PC camera before but are now unable to resist ...

Most of those leaving education at age 18 or 21 this year do not have the technical and practical skills they need to find work at this time of pandemic recession.  To redress this, Government must ...

The Covid lockdown has demonstrated the potential of Educational Technology to support remote learning and workplace training but the focus on “free” access threatens to destroy the revenue streams ...

Concerns over personal privacy, of serious concern to the political activists who might be "picked off" by their opponents but not to the majority of the population, have come ahead of enthusiasm ...

The most comprehensive and authoritative source of information on changes to the availability of educational materials for those of school age is the corona virus page of the London Grid for Learning

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, David Parry-Jones, VP EMEA at Twilio, explains why more people need to engage with the coding curriculum to gain coding skills, and why creativity is ...

Ten years after it was first introduced, the Samsung Digital Discovery Centre has been relaunched at the British Museum after an update to install new technology and create new digital experiences ...

I went to a Code Club and polled the children in attendance to find out their opinions on technology careers, and I was surprised by their answers. There is a debate among those in the technology ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Byron Calmonson, director at The Resourcing Hub discusses what the future of work will look like, and whether the next generation are ready for it. The ...

The Statutory Review of the Digital Apprenticeship standards  inherited by the Institute for Apprenticeships answers less than half the question. Much of the question (e.g. allowable costs) is ...

In this contributed post, MJ Chun, director of product, Anki, explains why children need to be exposed to science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) from a young age. Coding was added to the ...

Unless you understand the past you cannot make sense of the present let alone make sensible preparations for an uncertain future. Unfortunately most discussion on education and training policy is ...

Lego Education, the more serious branch of the Lego enterprise, aims to provide teachers and other education providers with fun ways to engage children with science, technology, engineering and ...

Reviews of organisational security can be viewed in many positive ways, but all too often with trepidation or resignation. The rise of phishing, where spoof, but increasingly credible, messages try ...

There is a real danger that technology education in schools will wither and die, with all the risks that brings to the UK’s digital skills, research and innovation capabilities. There was great ...

In this contributed blog post, John Brodie, CEO of Aquila Insight, discusses the importance of data skills and how science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) education can help tackle the ...

Alongside Splunk’s annual event Splunk.conf runs the software firm’s learning and certification course, Splunk University, where in 2017 I spent a day learning how to use Splunk to deep dive data ...

In this guest post Jess Wade from Imperial College London describes her experience at an event designed to encourage millennials to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and maths ...

Tech ambassador Detective Dot, created by Bright Little Labs, is a member of the Children's Intelligence Agency - but how can the CIA be used as a platform to engage kids with Stem?  I attended a ...

When Sanderson Hotel London invited me to a Code First: Girls introduction to coding event (including free cocktails) I decided to see if code still gave me the cold sweats it did at university ...

For a long time, people working in IT laboured under the knowledge that nobody from outside IT was interested in what they do because it’s all too technical  - a bit boring and geeky. It’s been ...

The mere existence of an industrial strategy for the UK – especially one that prioritises science, technology and innovation - is a hugely positive step for everyone in IT. But it’s nowhere near ...

In this guest blog Ronnie Toerien, HCM strategy leader, Oracle Africa explains why giving all employees access to relevant training is the solution to the tech skills shortage. The past ten years ...

This guest blog features two women in tech from the same firm - product manager Therese Stowell and senior software engineer Maria Ntalla - both explain their career paths and how they became women ...

In this is contributed blog post from O2's HR director Ann Pickering, she discusses the barriers women can face when trying to move up within an organisation - Breaking barriers for women in tech: ...

This contributed post by David Allison, founder and managing director of GetMyFirstJob, discusses the potential for apprenticeships to fill the UK's tech skills gap.  Despite a challenging economic ...

We didn’t hear much about the digital economy during the recent political party conferences. Prime minister Theresa May made a throwaway comment in her big set-piece speech suggesting a recognition ...

The Earlham Institute is working hard to break down preconceptions about who can have a Stem career, and Rob Davey and Peter Bickerton took the time to tell Computer Weekly how. In the lead up to ...

You have only three weeks to help get the Apprentice Grant and Levy System right. Yes three weeks. That means robust responses copied to your trade association, professional body and MP, not just ...

Jenny Hogan, EMEA Operations Director for Digital Realty, talks about the women working in data centres across the world, and why Stem careers are important.  When you think of a data centre, you ...

In this contributed blog post Lee Scott, creative computing subject leader at Bath Spa University, explains how utilising creative computing technologies could help encourage more girls into ...

In this guest blog by Steve Brown, programme Manager at Next Tech Girls, Brown discusses the need for more female role models in the tech industry to encourage girls to pursue tech roles.  Gender ...

In this contributed blog post, Elaine Baker, the engineering director for the Applied Intelligence division of BAE Systems, explains the need for strong female role models in building the next ...

In this contributed blog post, Scott Langshaw, IT manager at the East Manchester Academy explains the importance of enabling students through the use of technology.  The use of tablets in schools ...

In this contributed blog post, two women at differed points in their careers describe their experiences persuing a career in the tech industry. Ritu Mahandru, vice-president of application delivery ...

In this contributed blog post, Jacquelyn Guderley, co-founder and managing director of social enterprise Stemettes, discusses the role social organisations can play in promoting diversity in the ...

Student Ellie Tisdell reviews the Bigshot Do-It-Yourself Camera, with mixed results... The Bigshot "Do-It-Yourself" Camera claims to be an interactive and creative educational task, but after ...