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Another lockdown and scrapped exams help drive the post-COVID-19 Open Schools (R)evolution
Winsafe Ltd 05 Jan 2021COVID 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 ...
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How the self-taught movement is opening the door to a career in coding
Business Editor 30 Oct 2020GUEST 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 ...
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What does and doesn’t work on video?
Freeform Dynamics 24 Jul 2020Hands 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 ...
When IT Meets Politics
How can schools help the UK’s post-Covid recovery in the economy and employment?
Winsafe Ltd 10 Jul 2020Most 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 ...
When IT Meets Politics
Reskilling those whose futures have been destroyed by the Covid lockdown
Winsafe Ltd 01 Jun 2020The 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 ...
When IT Meets Politics
Is personal privacy more important than combatting Covid-19?
Winsafe Ltd 26 Mar 2020Concerns 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 ...
When IT Meets Politics
When On-line Education and Training meet the Covid-19 Lockdown
Winsafe Ltd 22 Mar 2020The 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
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Why creative coding skills are vital for the enterprises of the future
Business Editor 27 Dec 2019GUEST 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 ...
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The Samsung Digital Discovery Centre has been relaunched at the British Museum
Business Editor 09 Oct 2019Ten 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 ...
When IT Meets Politics
5/10 for the IfA Digital Apprenticeships Standards Review
Winsafe Ltd 25 May 2019The 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 ...
When IT Meets Politics
Education and training to help build the future, not just preserve the past
Winsafe Ltd 05 Sep 2018Unless 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 ...
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How Lego Education tries to encourage kids into Stem through play-based learning
Business Editor 22 Feb 2018Lego 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 ...
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IT education in schools is still not working - and that's a huge problem for the digital economy
Editor in chief 10 Nov 2017There 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 ...
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Splunk University: big data skills training from the ninjas
Business Editor 12 Oct 2017Alongside 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 ...
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Bright Little Labs - a brainstorm into how to engage kids with Stem
Business Editor 26 Jun 2017Tech 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 ...
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Three-quarters of non-tech workers want a job in IT - what's stopping them?
Editor in chief 04 May 2017For 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 ...
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A successful industrial strategy for UK tech depends on people, not politics
Editor in chief 27 Jan 2017The 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: ...
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GUEST BLOG: Why Apprenticeships offer a lifeline to the UK’s tech industry
Business Editor 28 Oct 2016This 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 ...
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Government must not ignore the historic international nature of UK IT
Editor in chief 07 Oct 2016We 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 ...
When IT Meets Politics
Government consults on Apprentice Grant and Levy Scheme: your chance to help get it right
Winsafe Ltd 16 Aug 2016You 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 ...
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GUEST BLOG: How creative computing will help narrow the gender gap
Business Editor 11 Jul 2016In 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 ...
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GUEST BLOG: To create more female engineers, we need to create more strong female role models
Business Editor 29 Jun 2016In 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 ...