Bright Network targets 100,000 students with digital skills academy
100,000 students and recent graduates in the UK are set to receive critical digital skills training in the next five years as part of Bright Network’s new Technology Academy. The overall aim is to create the largest free digital skills training programme for undergraduates and graduates in the UK. Bright Network wants to deliver vital tech skills […]
Sky and Adobe team up to launch The Edit digital skills schools programme
Sky and Adobe have launched The Edit, a new digital programme for schools designed to improve the media and digital literacy of 30,000 young people across the UK and Ireland. With a focus on low-income areas, The Edit will reach and inspire the next generation of media talent by breaking down the industry’s barriers to […]
iHASCO offers free training to all key workers across the UK
Bracknell based eLearning provider, iHASCO, have announced that all key workers across the UK can obtain free access to their Mental Health Awareness and Infection Prevention & Control training programmes. The announcement was made shortly after they were listed on the Crown Commercial Service’s COVID-19 Catalogue of supplier offers. Mental health and wellbeing has long […]
Level up your professional skills during lockdown with these online courses
During these times of great uncertainty, one thing we all have more of is time. So why not use it to learn new skills and improve existing ones with our newly available and unlimited annual courses? These are specially-curated online courses for Education professionals designed to help you and your team improve expertise and learn […]
ABM UK’s Junior Engineering Engagement Programme begins third year
Facilities management services provider ABM UK has kicked off year three of its Junior Engineering Engagement Programme (J.E.E.P.), which aims to tackle misperceptions amongst children and their parents of the facilities management (FM) industry, while creating a pipeline of future technical talent. The third year will build on the success of the programme, which has been […]
A Levels reveal rise in STEM subjects
STEM subjects are on the way up, with an increase in boys and girls taking science subjects at A level. Post-recent A level results, many pupils are now looking at applying to universities, with A level entries higher than expected given that the population is estimated to have decreased by three per cent, with A […]
GUEST BLOG: A-levels overlook disconnect between education system and the workplace
By James Eiloart, Senior Vice President of EMEA, Tableau Software While the government places digital skills at the core of its Industrial Strategy, a widening disconnect is emerging between the current educational system and the demands of the modern workplace. Much is still being made of the need to increase the number of students pursuing STEM subjects such […]
Are graduates ‘colonising’ jobs that do not require degree-level skills?
In response to a recent study conducted by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the HR association’s chief executive, Peter Cheese, has stated that university graduates are ‘colonising’ jobs that do not require degree-level skills. It is claimed that a university education is not justified in a large number of professionals; as well […]
Industry Spotlight – Start-up courses and skills training: Broadening the appeal of further education…
The extension of the compulsory full-time education leaving age in England from 16 to 18 means that further education institutions have access to a wider range of talent than ever before. But with these increased student numbers comes added scrutiny on colleges and institutions to provide high-quality, worthwhile courses to students, in order to give […]
Parents’ obsession with smart phones affecting child conversation skills, research claims…
With substantial claims made by a number education professionals that technology can prove beneficial to a child’s learning, new research from the advice and information service for head teachers, The Key, has declared that parents’ continued use of smart phones is increasingly affecting young children’s social skills; making them unprepared for the commencement of primary […]