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Chance to learn new skills

Google returns to Scotland with free digital training

Google Digital Garage
Google is launching digital training workshops in Edinburgh and Glasgow..

Response to industry demand

Napier offers students new Fintech degree course

Edinburgh Napier is responding to the growth of the fintech sector by launching a dedicated Masters degree in the subject.

Challenge for policymakers

Only a third of students plan to stay in Scotland

students
Less than a third of students studying in Scotland intend to find work north of the border..

Firms face difficulty finding workers

Apprentices may fill construction skills gap

City & Guilds have revealed that 87% of employers last year were finding it difficult to recruit the type of skilled workers they need – and some employers are nowRead More

Women in the workplace

Girls must be encouraged to choose engineering

women female engineeer (Institute of Engineering and Technology)
Not enough female role models and gender stereotyping are well-documented reasons as to why girls don't choose engineering, says Paula Ruiz

Young engineers

Students celebrate success in STEM challenge

Knots to Watts – a project jointly supported by Vattenfall, Crown Estate Scotland and the Institute of Physics in Scotland (IOPS) – came to an exciting finish..

Focus on ethics

Queen Margaret University launches Business School

Queen Margaret Business School
Queen Margaret University has launched a Business School

Graduate apprenticeship unveiled

Data degree is a first for Scotland’s future workforce

Professor Lorna Milne, St Andrews University;  David Brown, PwC Scotland’s Government leader; Professor Charlie Jeffery, Edinburgh University; and Claudette Kennedy, Skills Development Scotland     A new training course designed for the ‘jobsRead More

Investing in new school

Openreach backs next wave of digital engineers

Keith Brown Openreach student
Openreach chief executive Clive Selley today announced a £400,000 investment in a fibre training school

Disability

Cerebral palsy didn’t stop my career goals