From basic digital skills and in-work apprenticeships to executive training and formal education; the digital skills gap is recognised as holding back UK plc. Nearly one in four of us have not kept pace and lack the basic digital skills to manage core tasks such as managing information, communicating online or making a transaction. Supporting the development of these skills is an issue for employers, educators and government if we are to fulfil our potential as one of the most digitally competitive nations.
This topic is supported by
Imogen Miles Lead Service designer & Richard Goodwin MBA, Managing director, The JGA Group
Katie Heard, Head of research and data insights & Michelle Lofthouse, Programme Lead, The Good Things Foundations
Christopher Gale, busines Development Director, We Are Digital
Adam Freeman-Pask, Head of digital innovation, Sport England
By Zoe Amar, FCIM, Director, Zoe Amar Digital
By Yatin Mahandru, Head of Public Sector and Health UK, Cognizant
By Zoe Amar, FCIM, Director, Zoe Amar Digital
December 2018
Co-author: Cath Sleeman, Quantitative Research Fellow at Nesta Nesta’s study of 41 million job adverts reveals not all digital skills will be equally valuable in the future and creativity is key. By 2030 the job market will look dramatically different. Previous Nesta research has predicted that about […]
November 2018
Around three years ago, I began my journey into the world of technology which saw me start my GCSE in ICT. Like any young, bright-eyed student I believed that the natural progression of my education would be to continue to A-Levels and then university. Little […]
November 2018
One of the greatest pleasures of my role in Digital Leaders is meeting talented and well informed members of the Digital Leaders Community, as I travel up and down the UK. Recently I have found myself creating a causal relationship between three themes echoed across the […]
October 2018
Agile – it’s such a simple word but one that can cause so much misunderstanding. More and more of us are being asked to ‘be more agile’ in the way we work. We’re being called to be more adaptable, show greater agility, and to be more […]
October 2018
35% of the skills demanded for jobs across industries will change by 2020, according to the World Economic Forum. At the same time, with the Fourth Industrial Revolution well underway – driven by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies – the skills gap is […]
October 2018
Agile is fast becoming the ‘must-have’ methodology requested by many operations directors… something that may be more the result of an impulse purchase in an airport waiting lounge bookshop than coming from a deep understanding of the topic. That said, I must admit that learning […]
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