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| Feb 6, 2026 | Scotland Launches Digital Education Awards | The Digital Education Awards Scotland (DEAS) scheme aims to highlight the outstanding work of educators who champion digital skills in classrooms and beyond, encouraging best practice, career development and better outcomes for learners.
Th... |
| Sep 25, 2025 | New Training Offer Helps Scots Boost Digital Skills | A new offer to help people across Scotland gain skills in a range of digital technologies has been launched.
The Digital Learning Initiative brings together training offered by AWS, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and Salesforce to help people improv... |
| Aug 28, 2025 | Jobs Lost As Glasgow’s M Squared Lasers Appoints Administrators | Glasgow laser company M Squared Lasers has fallen into administration, resulting in the loss of twenty-eight jobs, a severe blow to the Scottish National Investment Bank, which first backed the business.
Founded by Dr Graeme Malcolm and Dr ... |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Navigating Challenges: Dundee University’s Financial Taskforce and Scotland’s Clean Energy Hub | In the heart of Scotland, two significant initiatives are unfolding. One aims to rescue a prestigious university from financial turmoil, while the other seeks to propel Scottish clean tech firms into the booming UAE energy market. Both stor... |
| Apr 15, 2025 | Members of Dundee Uni’s Rescue Taskforce Announced | The wider membership of an external Taskforce, set up to advise the University of Dundee on its current finance challenges, has been announced today.
The University of Dundee Strategic Advisory Taskforce to help the university amid its fina... |
| Mar 7, 2025 | Scots Gov Announces £100M for Apprenticeships | More than £100 million funding to support Modern and Foundation Apprenticeships in 2025-26 has been confirmed by education secretary Jenny Gilruth.
Contracts will now be issued by Skills Development Scotland to employers, training providers... |
| Sep 16, 2024 | New OECD Report Reveals Skills Overhaul for Glasgow City Region | A new report by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities sets out an agenda for future-proofing the employment and skills systems in Glasgow City Region.
The report, titled Future-Proofing the Skills System in Glasgow ... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | Greener and Stronger: Plumbing & Heating Apprenticeship Boosts Low Carbon Learning | Green technology skills will become ever more important as the nation transitions to low-carbon heating technologies
Stephanie Lowe, Deputy Chief Executive at SNIPEF
John Doherty, Director at John Doherty & Co Ltd
Unparalleled industry-... |
| Jul 4, 2023 | DIGIT’s Movers and Shakers June 2023 | Welcome to DIGIT’s Movers and Shakers for June 2023.
Here, we’ll go through some of the major partnerships, recruitments, appointments, and expansions seen in the Scottish Tech ecosystem throughout the month of June.
This month’s issue feat... |
| Jun 19, 2023 | SDS Appoints New Chair to Its Digital Economy Skills Group | The Digital Economy Skills Group is the industry and public sector partnership aiming to enhance the country’s digital capabilities.
As the new chair, Lepper, who’s Head of Cloud Commercial and Optimisation at education software company Tri... |
| May 10, 2023 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | April 2023 | Welcome to the latest edition of DIGIT’s monthly Movers and Shakers column.
Movers and Shakers gives you the low-down on recent news in the Scottish tech ecosystem, from recruitment to partnerships to awards.
This month’s column features a ... |
| Apr 20, 2023 | SDS Starts New Highlands Digital Skills Initiative | The growing demand digital skills in the Highland economy is to be addressed with support to create a new series of tech clubs across the region.
Skills Development Scotland (SDS) is working with the Scottish Government and Highland Council... |
| Sep 22, 2022 | Scots Gov Announces Independent Review of Skills System | Minister for Youth Employment and Training Jamie Hepburn has announced an independent review of how skills are delivered in Scotland to ensure the system is fit for purpose.
Led by James Withers, former Chief Executive of Scotland Food and ... |
| Jun 14, 2022 | The State of Tech Opportunities in Aberdeen and the Northeast | Outside of the Central Belt, Aberdeen and the Northeast ranks as the strongest economy in Scotland. Not only is its GDP behind only Glasgow and Edinburgh, it also boasts the second highest GPD per capita, testament to the skilled workers it... |
| Apr 8, 2022 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | March 2022 | Recruitment Hamilton Forth
Hamilton Forth, a part of the Livingston James Group, has strengthened its team of digital and technology recruiters with the appointment of two new consultants, Lynne Munro and Hazel Swan.
Munro and Swan join the... |
| Mar 29, 2022 | Experts Create New Sign Language Glossary of Digital Terms | A new glossary of British Sign Language (BSL) signs specifically for skills and jobs in digital technology has been created.
Over 500 words and terms have been invented covering computer science, cybersecurity, data science and software dev... |
| Mar 4, 2022 | SDS and Scots Colleges Bid to Improve Online Security | Skills Development Scotland (SDS) has partnered with colleges across the country to launch a new initiative designed to help make Scotland one of the most cyber resilient nations in the world.
A cybersecurity module, developed in partnershi... |
| Feb 1, 2022 | Addressing the Gender Gap in Scots Tech Needs “Significant Collaboration” | A new chair of a gender diversity group said more work must be done to begin addressing the gender gap in Scottish tech.
The comments were made by Sarah McLaughlin, the Vice President of Marketing at Scottish space tech scale-up R3-IoT.
McL... |
| Dec 16, 2021 | DPL Scheme Offers 100 Fully Funded Places to Learn Digital Skills | Only 100 fully funded places are left on the Digital Pilots Licence (DPL) scheme, a programme to help upskill workers across the Northeast of Scotland.
Offered by online education group Jump Digital, in partnership with Skills Development S... |
| Sep 16, 2021 | Neurodiversity in Tech | Give Talent an Opportunity for Success | As we enter the second half of 2021, ever closer to a return to some kind of new normal, our world has changed significantly over the past few years.
Employers are now more understanding and accepting around flexible and remote working, eag... |
| Aug 18, 2021 | Neurodivergent Talent Can Help Fill Cybersecurity Skills Gap | In Scotland, one in ten individuals are neurodivergent. Yet a clear focus on how we can support and champion non-neurotypical talent in the workplace often seems lacking.
Like other individuals who are diverse for other reasons such as ethn... |
| Aug 10, 2021 | Apprentice Employer of the Month | Sitekit | Scottish digital innovation firm Sitekit is developing and investing in tomorrow’s tech workforce by offering professional development and learning opportunities with West Highland UHI, Robert Gordon University and QA Apprenticeships.
For t... |
| Jul 14, 2021 | Comment | The Importance of Neurodiversity | The last 15 months have been extraordinary for all of us, but especially for the HR profession, which has been front and centre of navigating huge people and organisational challenges.
As we look toward the ‘new normal’, we must all learn t... |
| Mar 8, 2021 | International Women’s Day | Q&A with SDS’s Digital Skills Team | With digital transformation comes a need for new skills. The likes of coding, cybersecurity, and software development, are all needed to drive modern society.
However, with some of these fields being barely decades old, there is a notable s... |
| Mar 5, 2021 | Scottish Apprenticeship Week | Old and New Skills in Cybersecurity | As demand for digital skills to deal with cybersecurity issues grows, apprenticeships offer a path for interested people to retrain.
However, too many see a lack of technical skills as disqualifying them from digital fields. But mature stud... |
| Mar 4, 2021 | Scottish Apprenticeship Week | Paths into Cybersecurity | There are many paths into cybersecurity and other tech fields. No matter what the person’s background or experience, so long as there is talent and dedication, there is a path available.
While graduate programmes help bring skilled workers ... |
| Mar 3, 2021 | Scottish Apprenticeship Week | Modern Apprentices for Modern Skills | Scottish Apprenticeship Week is running from March 1-5 to spotlight how apprenticeships help businesses, individuals, and the economy.
The initiative, backed by Skills Development Scotland, will help showcase how companies can use apprentic... |
| Mar 2, 2021 | Scottish Apprenticeship Week | Cybersecurity Skills at Leidos | Apprenticeships are one of the key cybersecurity tools Scottish businesses have at their disposal. With threats building up across 2020, such as ransomware and botnets, companies need to ensure they have well-trained staff standing between ... |
| Mar 1, 2021 | Scottish Apprenticeship Week | Building Cybersecurity at Forrit | In a digital world, there are two issues growing in urgency – cybersecurity and digital skills. Cyberattacks have been rising across 2020, with some reports calling it the busiest year for UK firms on record. On top of this, high profile at... |
| Dec 17, 2020 | New Action Plan Highlights Importance of ‘Net-zero Skills’ to Future Economy | Coordinated by Skills Development Scotland, the Climate Emergency Skills Action Plan has identified a series of “priority areas” that will help Scots capitalise on the job opportunities that may emerge from the net-zero transition.
The acti... |
| Dec 9, 2020 | Innovative Online Upskilling & Career Development Platform Launches | A new executive education platform has been launched to deliver upskilling and career development that is accessible online.
The platform brings together a portfolio of new digital first, fully-accredited, executive education programmes inc... |
| Oct 8, 2020 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers: September 2020 | |
| Oct 1, 2020 | New Report Calls for Action to Improve Tech Sector Neurodiversity | Scotland’s technology and academia sectors are being urged to help more neurodivergent people achieve employment to plug the country’s widening digital skills gap.
In a report published today (1st October), Skills Development Scotland warne... |
| Sep 23, 2020 | Scotland’s Digital Technologies Skills Group Announces New Chair | The Digital Technologies Skills Group (DTSG) has announced the appointment of a new chair to help focus Scotland’s entrepreneur skills.
Startup specialist Ross Tuffee, the founder and CEO of Iceberg.tech, has been named the new chair of the... |
| Aug 25, 2020 | New Report Explores ‘World-Class’ Potential of Scottish Tech Sector | The Scottish Government has welcomed recommendations to help further develop the Scottish tech sector.
A report led by entrepreneur Mark Logan has outlined the Scottish tech sector’s potential for innovation and high growth; exploring job c... |
| Oct 1, 2019 | Scotland’s Technology Sector Contributes £4.9bn to the Economy | The importance of Scotland’s technology sector to the nation’s economy has been underlined by research published by Skills Development Scotland (SDS).
Titled “Scotland’s Digital Technologies 2019”, the report confirms that the tech industry... |
| Mar 5, 2019 | Openreach Unveils £485,000 Investment in Livingston Training Facility | Openreach has unveiled a £485,000 investment in a national fibre training school for Scotland, aimed at educating the country’s next generation of digital engineers.
Trainees at the new centre will hone their skills in a replica street to r... |
| Feb 18, 2019 | Aberdeen School Pupils Learn About Cyber Safety | In an effort to educate pupils about online safety, Skills Development Scotland (SDS) and Cybersafe Scotland came together to deliver a series of workshops that focused on the risks of online exploitation, data harvesting, and social media ... |
| Jun 13, 2018 | Scottish Government Exceeds Apprenticeship Targets | The Scottish Government has announced that it has surpassed its target for apprenticeships, with more than 27,000 people starting Modern Apprenticeships in 2017/18. Statistics released by Skills Development Scotland also reveal that the Sco... |
| Apr 12, 2018 | STEM in Schools: Female Student Numbers Still Lacking | Figures published by the Department for Education show that UK schools severely lack female computer science students, with some reporting that they have no female ICT students whatsoever.
According to the report 0.4% of female students cho... |
| Mar 9, 2018 | Scotland Moves to Strengthen Cyber Skills | The Scottish government has launched a series of initiatives to ensure Scotland’s cyber resilience increases and that the country is producing more teachers with vital STEM skills and teaching every citizen the key skills needed to be safe ... |
| Feb 8, 2018 | Scotland Needs to Embrace IT and Digital Apprenticeships | Recent research by PwC has indicated that if Scotland had the same uptake of apprenticeships as Germany, it would see economic output increase by around £3.2 billion.
Scotland is renowned for its high-calibre university graduates, which mak... |
| Feb 8, 2018 | School Pupils Treated to Cybersecurity Skills Event | Yesterday, pupils from Inverness Royal Academy, Tain Royal Academy and Grantown Grammar participated in a cybersecurity skills event as part of Skills Development Scotland’s (SDS) Cyber Skills Programme.
The purpose of the event was to shin... |
| Dec 8, 2017 | You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Cry… | Forget the social isolation and rage-inducing unpleasantness of video games*, or the unsettling and unsuspected online insecurity of fluffy toys which connect to the Internet**, what kids really want this Christmas is a solid job in an area... |
| Dec 7, 2017 | Women in IT Paid 15% Less Than Men | The new BCS Diversity Report has revealed that female employees are worse off than their male counterparts in the IT sector. The report found that women make up only 17% of the industry’s workforce, and that female employees earn around £66... |
| Dec 4, 2017 | Report: BT Apprenticeships are the Best in the Country | BT has been awarded the highest-ever grades for its apprenticeship schemes, in an independent review from training body Education Scotland, beating a number of apprenticeships in IT and Communications offered by colleges, training and emplo... |
| Nov 28, 2017 | Scottish Enterprise and Skills Board Members Announced | The members of the new Enterprise and Strategic Skills board have been announced by the Scottish Government.
The board is tasked with creating ‘a fresh strategy for enterprise and skills support in Scotland’ and maximising output from publi... |
| Nov 20, 2017 | DIGIT LEADERS: Is Scotland Facing a Computing Studies Crisis? | In September DIGIT reported on calls from academics at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Computing Science Education for children as young as five to be taught basic computer skills.
According to The Herald, the introductory courses co... |
| Nov 9, 2017 | Cyber Crime Fighters Wanted | Holy Wannacry, Batman! Scotland’s school pupils are being encouraged to consider fighting cybercriminals as a career choice, thanks to a new initiative launched today by Skills Development Scotland.
Aimed at S1 to S3 pupils, the Cyber Skill... |
| Nov 3, 2017 | Dell Launches Scottish Initiative to Encourage more Inclusion | Scotland is now on the offensive to tackling gender disparities within its technology sector. The first steps in addressing these gaps came from studies released by multiple industry bodies, drawing first light on the problem. Since then, v... |
| Oct 31, 2017 | Scottish Government Publishes New STEM Strategy | Is Scottish STEM on the road to recovery? The first ever Scotland Women in Technology Awards ceremony was undoubtedly a watershed moment for the nation’s tech sector, celebrating those who possess the commitment and passion to champion the ... |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Scotland Women In Technology Awards – The Winners | From primary school teachers to employers, rising stars, inspirational women and a lifetimes achievement, the first ever Scotland Women In Technology Awards Winners were announced last night.
The awards recognise an incredible range of dedi... |
| Sep 27, 2017 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers: September 2017 (Pt. 2) | MOVERS AND SHAKERS: NEW APPOINTMENTS Scott-Moncrieff
Business advisers and accountants Scott-Moncrieff have appointed Martin Langosch as Data Analytics Director to support the company’s audit and business technology (BTC) departments. Lango... |
| Sep 13, 2017 | The Scottish Groups Building Bridges in STEM | Is Scotland’s position as one of the pioneers of scientific and technological discovery under threat?
According to the BBC, several Scottish councils have warned that they are finding it difficult to recruit new science, technology and math... |
| Sep 6, 2017 | Digital Schools Awards To Equip Pupils With Cutting Edge Skills | The Digital Schools Awards encourages schools to infuse digital skills across the whole curriculum, with the express aim of equipping pupils with cutting-edge digital skills.
Schools participating in the scheme must carry out self-assessmen... |
| Sep 5, 2017 | The Data Lab Looks to Increase Data Literacy in Scotland | The Data Lab has launched its CPD (continuing professional development) and Training Programme for 2017, offering courses ranging from data visualisation to statistics. The course will aim to support local industry and ensure that staff hav... |
| Aug 30, 2017 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers: August 2017 | NEW HIRES Eden Scott
Scottish recruitment firm Eden Scott is bolstering its Sciences, Manufacturing and Technology sector team with four new starts. Lyn Smith has joined the Glasgow office as senior consultant after relocating from Northern... |
| Aug 17, 2017 | Digital Skills: Aligning Education with Industry Requirement | Industry has changed dramatically in the last 10 years, driven by technological progression and market disruption, and we need to make sure the skills pipeline evolves accordingly. As a country, there is a clear requirement to ensure that p... |
| Jul 14, 2017 | Tech sexism survey for Scotland’s IT sector | Running until the end of August, the sexism survey will collect responses to a series of questions that will be independently collated and analysed by recruitment and marketing advisor thePotentMix in September. The results are intended to ... |
| Jun 19, 2017 | More Growth, More Jobs, More Money – Scotland’s Tech Sector Flourishing | Digital Scotland’s Scotland’s Digital Technologies: Summary Report found that the sector contributed over £3.9B to the Scottish economy in 2015, with over 90,000 people employed in technical roles across the country.
Conducted throughout 20... |
| Jun 14, 2017 | Digital Skills Charity Offering £50,000 For New Projects | The Digital Xtra fund is looking for innovative, adaptable and sustainable projects which will teach concepts including computational thinking, coding, digital making and data science in fun and fascinating ways.
Projects can apply for up t... |
| Jun 12, 2017 | Role Models Wanted | Created by the Digital Technologies Skills Group and Girl Geek Scotland, the diversity initiative is looking for young women working in, or studying different aspects of digital technology to become role models and mentors for school age gi... |
| Apr 13, 2017 | Training Initiative Launched to Help Employers Recruit & Retain Female Talent | A free webinar series has been developed by Skills Development Scotland and Equate Scotland in partnership with the Digital Technologies Skills Group in response to new research that found women account for only 18 per cent of people workin... |
| Mar 2, 2016 | Young salmon farming workers benefit from apprenticeship program in Scotland | More than 150 young employees in Scotland have gained experience in the salmon farming industry thanks to that country’s Modern Apprenticeship program.
The program, which is run by Skills Development Scotland, annually places around 25,000 ... |
| Modal: Skills Development Platform Company Raises $25 Million | Modal (a leading skills development platform for data and analytics professionals) announced a $25 million Series A funding round led by Left Lane Capital and Ensemble VC with participation from leading investment firms Signalfire and Learn... |
