Category: Skills

One of the UK’s fastest growing and largest independent software testing companies, Edge Testing Solutions, part of Eurofins Digital Testing, is encouraging Scottish students to consider software testing as a career with a target of a further 100 graduates over

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Scottish digital skills academy CodeClan has announced the first industry partners to join its new Highlands campus in Inverness. Companies that have joined the campus’ partner programme get early access to students on CodeClan’s full-stack web development course as part

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Edinburgh is third in the UK in terms of locally available tech talent, according to a survey by a leading business consultancy. Scotland’s capital comes after London and Manchester respectively for its pool of digital professionals, per Accenture’s UK Tech Talent

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The University of the Highlands and Islands has joined forces with IBM to launch a BSc (Hons) degree in applied software development to address a growing skills gap. Available entirely online, the programme will enable students from across the UK and beyond to study through the university’s

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Digital Xtra Fund has launched the latest £75k funding round in support of extracurricular activities that boost interest in computing and technology among young people across Scotland. This comes on the heels of alarming figures from SQA showing a massive

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Nearly 50,000 primary and secondary school pupils in Glasgow are set to receive free iPads as part of the “biggest Apple education initiative in Europe”. The £300 million IT project between Glasgow City Council and CGI will benefit 70,000 children

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It is vital that we inspire more girls to take computing science. But to do this, we need to start exciting girls and young women about technology subjects as early as possible. The longer you wait to introduce pupils to

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Heriot-Watt University’s graduate apprenticeships initiative, already one of the largest of its kind, is poised to welcome a record number of candidates. September’s bumper intake will represent the third cohort since the programme was launched at the Edinburgh-based institution. The

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