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Digital Xtra Fund launches eighth funding round to drive digital skills for young people across Scotland

By updatesPosted on 7th February 20237th February 2023Posted in Member News, Skills, ScotlandIS News

Digital Xtra Fund has opened applications for its eighth cohort of tech initiatives since being launched in 2016. The charity supports extracurricular activities at the school stage which help drive digital skills. To date, the Fund has secured almost £1

Tackling the cyber skills gap with internal investment

By updatesPosted on 31st January 202331st January 2023Posted in Member News, ScotlandISCyber, Skills

Scottish Business Resilience Centre’s Jude McCorry writes in Futurescot about the benefits of upskilling your staff to obtain the cyber skills you need. According to concerning UK government research, more than half (51%) of British companies lack the ability to carry

Commsworld, SmartSTEMs and Young Enterprise Scotland deliver STEM workshops,events and enterprise activities to North Lanarkshire schoolchildren

By updatesPosted on 10th January 202310th January 2023Posted in Member News, Skills

Schoolchildren across North Lanarkshire are being offered the opportunity to take part in workshops and events aimed at inspiring them to pursue a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) career. The outreach of activities is being created by Glasgow-based charity

On the 12th Day of SISmas, ScotlandIS gave to me… 12 busy months!

By updatesPosted on 22nd December 202222nd December 2022Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Skills, ScotlandIS News, Climate Tech

Check out this blog from CEO Karen Meechan, summarising everything that ScotlandIS has been up to this year on behalf of our membership. At ScotlandIS, our vision is for our membership and the sector to be recognised as innovative, ambitious,

Upskill with the fully-funded Digital Pilot License

By updatesPosted on 17th November 202217th November 2022Posted in Member News, Skills

What is the Digital Pilot Licence (DPL)? Career opportunities, internally and externally, in Data and Digital are growing at an exceptional rateand increasingly employers are seeking candidates who can evidence knowledge. The DPL takes you on a holistic journey showing

CodeClan’s Incoming CEO Announces Plans to Scale

By updatesPosted on 2nd November 20222nd November 2022Posted in Member News, Skills

New CodeClan CEO Loral Quinn is planning for scale at Scotland’s digital skills academy, as Quinn replaces outgoing CEO Melinda Matthews-Clarkson. Loral Quinn, the former CEO and co-founder of Sustainably, the Fintech for good startup, says: “There are 20,000 software jobs out

Scottish tech organisations join forces to bridge the digital skills gap

By updatesPosted on 2nd November 20222nd November 2022Posted in Skills, Diversity and Inclusion, ScotlandIS News

ScotlandIS has partnered with Tech She Can and STEM Ambassadors to improve access to STEM training for school pupils Partnership calling for industry and Scots with a passion for supporting STEM education to get involved A new partnership has been

Digital Xtra Fund awards 50% more funding to support even more digital skills initiatives for young people across Scotland

By updatesPosted on 18th October 202214th October 2022Posted in Member News, Skills

35 grants across 24 local authorities, 23 primary schools, 3 secondary schools, 3 colleges and universities, 2 libraries, and 4 educational bodies, totalling £150,000 Baillie Gifford, CGI, Chroma Ventures, J.P. Morgan and SWiT are among Digital Xtra Fund’s corporate partners

Gender Diversity in Tech Initiative Welcomes Lloyds as Latest High-Profile Partner

By updatesPosted on 2nd September 20222nd September 2022Posted in Member News, Skills, Diversity and Inclusion, ScotlandIS News

Following on from last week’s unveiling of the latest group of emerging female digital leaders to join the “Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation” program, the organisers have announced that Lloyds Banking Group has become the most recent high-profile company

Strathclyde Uni and Eureka Solutions Team to Boost Talent Pipeline

By updatesPosted on 30th August 202230th August 2022Posted in Member News, Skills

The University of Strathclyde has established a Graduate Apprenticeship partnership with Eureka Solutions to help the company to develop skills and boost its talent pipeline. The company has taken on two new students who will combine workplace learning and real-life experience with a