We need to build digital skills from the grassroots up - Colin Frame

People are important to every business, they help us to innovate and grow, and to drive future and long-term success.
By Colin Frame
Published 13th Apr 2024, 04:55 BST
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We also recognise that the talent pipeline in Scotland is not working as efficiently as it could be, and we are well short of the skills we need. This is a problem because you can only grow a business if you have the right people in place to enable this.

I share the view of many that we need to fix the problem at the very root, at the grassroots level in schools across the country, taking a bottom-up approach to how tech skills become embedded in individuals.

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Along these lines, we have spent the last few years supporting the provision of digital skills to young people in partnership with Heart of Midlothian FC and its pioneering Innovation Centre, alongside other corporates like Baillie Gifford and Dell Technologies. We think it’s an important template from which others can learn, but we know we can only make so much difference, and it will take others in government and industry to really move the dial.

Stellar Omada CEO Colin Frame says Scotland needs to prioritise digital skils education (Picture: Stewart Attwood)