Apps for Good is an education movement that is powering a generation to change their world with technology. We partner with teachers in schools and learning centres to deliver our course to young people from 8 -18 years of age. Students work together as teams to find real issues they care about and learn how to solve them using technology. Since 2010 Apps for Good has been delivered to over 75,000 students
Are you Looking for creative ways to develop children and young people’s learning about the world of work? Enterprising attitudes and skills such as generating ideas, creative problem solving, being pro-active and tenacious and taking responsibility, help to support our young people to cope with, and indeed succeed, in our increasingly dynamic wold of work. Scotland’s Enterprising Schools have developed a free online professional learning programme – The Enterprising Practitioner
There are now more ways for young people to browse pathways and explore potential qualifications routes on Skills Development Scotland’s career information and advice web service, My World of Work. Senior Service Development Executive Mairi Rule explains how these changes will help young people, and those who support them: “Our new ‘pathways’ feature is changing the way our users can search for, filter and explore job profiles. The idea behind
Scottish Apprenticeship Week is a nationwide celebration showing that apprenticeships work for businesses, individuals and the economy and encouraging more employers to take on apprentices. From 6 to 10 March the campaign theme for 2017 is ‘Apprenticeships are Changing’.With a commitment to more Modern Apprenticeships; the introduction of Foundation and Graduate Level Apprenticeships – it’s never been more important to promote the apprenticeship family. Organisations and employers are being urged
Over the last 75 years The Outward Bound Trust has used the outdoors to equip young people from all walks of life with valuable skills for education, work and life in order to fulfil their potential. Through participation in the charity’s courses, young people become more confident and self-aware, are better able to work collaboratively with others, better able to communicate effectively and become more resilient and determined individuals. These skills
The ability to work with numbers is an essential part of being financially capable. This has been recognised recently in a number of support materials recently published by Education Scotland. The first of these is the National Numeracy and Progression Framework. This includes a progression pathway on money (linked to the experiences and outcomes for money in Curriculum for Excellence) One of the key aspects of this framework is the
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