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INTELLIGENT VERTICAL: EDUCATION
DIGITAL SKILLS TRAINING
MAKING FUTURE
GENERATIONS MORE
EMPLOYABLE
Organisations in the education sector are attempting
to reduce the digital skills gap as more and more
people are expected to fill digital roles in the near
future. To prepare students for these roles, universities
and IT vendors are collaborating to educate people in
the best possible way.
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ed Hat, the world’s leading provider
of open source solutions, has
announced its collaboration with
Lord Wandsworth College (LWC), an
independent school for girls and boys aged
11–18, and the University of Surrey, a public
research university specialising in science,
engineering, medicine and business, on the
Open Schools Coding Competition, designed
to inspire the next generation of coders
and software developers. In so doing, the
competition hopes to contribute to building
the UK’s digital talent pool.
The competition is now in its second
year, with 10 schools and approximately
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100 students in the UK taking part. The
competition aims to engage children
ahead of making their subject choices for
GCSE, so is open to Key Stage 3 students. It
challenges teams of students to use any free
visual programming environment to create
a gaming app that will help a charity of their
choice. The competition enables participants
to apply the basic principles of open
source software development and open
collaboration to solve a real-world problem
in a fun and competitive environment, with
the opportunity to win a prize for their team
and recognition for their school. In choosing
a charitable cause, each student can gain
a sense of how they can use digital skills to
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OUR MISSION
IS TO SPREAD
OPPORTUNITY
THROUGH
DIGITAL SKILLS,
EMPOWERING AS
MANY PEOPLE
AS POSSIBLE,
WHATEVER THEIR
BACKGROUND.
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