It is time to wave goodbye to the apprentice stereotype
With the government announcing the student loan repayment term will be extended to 40 years for new borrowers from September 2023 to ensure more students…
Skills Gap
What is a skills gap?
A skills gap is when your current workforce’s skill set doesn’t align with the skills they need to do their jobs. Many companies assume that hard technology skills are their primary skills gap. But, employees may also be lacking in soft skills that they need to do their jobs well
By 2035, higher skilled jobs and healthcare roles set to offset the millions of jobs displaced by automation and artificial intelligence
A number of megatrends and events are expected to shape the world of work in the coming decades. These include factors such as Brexit and…
Raise Up: why we must celebrate women in AI
Women are heavily underrepresented in emerging professions and this is certainly true of the AI industry. And across all areas: recent estimates suggest that women…
Mind the skills gap: building a career in tech
József Boda, CEO of Codecool and Michał Mysiak, CEO of Software Development Academy explores the potential solutions for the ever widening digital skills gap. High demand for skilled people in…
Unlocking cyber skills: This year’s essential back-to-school lesson plan
We can’t afford another year of schooling that fails to nurture the cyber-confident workforces of the future. Seven in ten large UK businesses were targeted…
How can organisations best train and assess the skills of their employees?
Counting the cost Many organisations across the UK have long identified growing skills gaps (I prefer to refer to this as a ‘skills shortage’, but…
Why Big Tech wants Computer Science to be the New Algebra
Earlier this month, the CEOs of hundreds of top US tech companies, including Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft, as well as universities and non-profits…
Schools and colleges need to better promote apprenticeships if we’re to tackle the UK’s tech talent shortage
Over the last month, students up and down the country have been receiving exam results. A time of celebration, a moment to reflect and, for…
Why universities face a race against time to close the digital expectation gap
At the start of the pandemic, universities came under scrutiny for not having the technology or the ability to support the student experience sufficiently. The…
Why closing the UK’s data literacy gap is key to future global success
As the world we live and work in becomes increasingly digitised, the need for data literate employees is greater than ever before. Gartner defines data…