{"id":73,"date":"2015-02-18T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2015\/02\/18\/digital-skills-report\/"},"modified":"2015-02-18T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T11:38:00","slug":"digital-skills-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/digital-skills-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital skills report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government published a report yesterday on the need to improve digital skills. The House of Lords Select Committee on Digital Skills published a report entitled <i>Make or Break: The UK&#8217;s Digital Future<\/i>. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-31501917\">BBC article<\/a> summarises the main findings and recommendations, which include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the need to ensure everyone leaves school with basic digital literacy<\/li>\n<li>the need to attract more women into computing<\/li>\n<li>the need to improve intermediate and high-end digital skills<\/li>\n<li>more emphasis on digital skills within Modern Apprenticeships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report claims that the UK is at a &#8220;tipping point&#8221; with digital skills. One that will determine the shape of the future UK economy. I was particularly interested in the comment about the importance of medium and high level digital skills since this is often an area that is overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>The Computing portfolio of qualifications already has a lot of awards in digital literacy but I will look at it again once I have read the report in full. I hope that schools and colleges take the opportunity to check that their programmes address the issues raised in the report.<\/p>\n<p>The full report can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/ld201415\/ldselect\/lddigital\/111\/111.pdf\">here <\/a>[PDF]. <a href=\"mailto:helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk\">Contact Helen<\/a> for more information about digital literacy qualifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government published a report yesterday on the need to improve digital skills. The House of Lords Select Committee on Digital Skills published a report entitled Make or Break: The UK&#8217;s Digital Future. A BBC article summarises the main findings and recommendations, which include: the need to ensure everyone leaves school with basic digital literacy the need to attract more women into computing the need to improve intermediate and high-end digital skills more emphasis on digital skills within Modern&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}