digital technology

The Role of Further Education Colleges in Bridging the UK’s Digital Skills Gap

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the UK faces a pressing challenge: a significant shortage of digital skills within its workforce. According to the UK government’s Digital Strategy, there is a clear need to work with educational institutions to deliver the digital skills that the economy requires. Watch our on-demand webinar, featuring Gateway Qualifications and New City College Group, as we explore how FE colleges are helping learners progress into graduate-level tech roles.

The future is digital – but not exclusively so

Technology will help us improve assessment for certain courses and groups of pupils, writes Jo Saxton, but we won’t be drinking the digital Kool-Aid I’m always telling my teenage children to get off their phones. Yet, however determined I might be that they actually talk in person to one another and their friends, I also […]

Why should colleges prioritise digital technology?

Using tech effectively throughout your college is about creating equal opportunities for all learners, explains Deborah Millar Our job is to prepare students for their future. If we don’t teach them to use digital technology, we’re not preparing them for the real world of business and industry. Two of the three colleges I’ve worked at […]