Skills and Learning

Using robots to teach basic programming with North-East school students.

Chloe Thompson, Head of Delivery Management, HMRC, 6 January 2023 - Community, Digital data and technology, Diversity and Inclusion, People and Skills, Skills and Learning, Training and progression, Women in Tech, Working at HMRC

This post explores how HMRC is using robots to encourage school girls in the North East of England to think about coding and to develop their STEM or related skills.

Come and meet us at Silicon Milkroundabout - London’s big tech job event

Government Digital Service, 6 May 2022 - Digital data and technology, Skills and Learning, Working at GDS

After two years of virtual events, come and meet us in person at Silicon Milkroundabout and kick start your career in the Civil Service

Supporting cross profession senior civil servants with their DDaT skills

Barbra Webber, 16 March 2022 - Digital data and technology, People and Skills, Skills and Learning, Training and progression

How we plan to support cross profession SCS to improve their digital, data and technology skills and knowledge

Supporting Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) professionals to progress

Laura Billings, 27 October 2021 - Capabilities, Digital data and technology, Skills and Learning

How we plan to transform progression routes for digital, data and technology professionals in government

A place for Apprenticeships in every DDAT Function

Joanne Granton, Senior Workforce Advisor DDTS, Defra, 8 February 2021 - Apprenticeships and internships, Digital data and technology, Skills and Learning

Hear about the great work that apprentices do for our government departments and wider businesses across the UK.

Habit-breaking and Reforming

Rose Waite, 10 December 2020 - Digital data and technology, Home Office, Skills and Learning, Training and progression

Find out how to grow people who will transform your organisation using the cross-government intro to agile training.

Building the Introduction to Product Management Course Online and Remotely

Arfah Farooq, 6 October 2020 - Capabilities, Communities of practice, Community, Digital data and technology, People and Skills, Product Management, Skills and Learning

Find out how we built our Introduction to Product Management course online remotely, and how it performed.

DeliverCon 2020: A journey of discovery in the Discovery Museum, Newcastle

Myles Jarvis, 30 April 2020 - People and Skills, Skills and Learning, Training and progression

Myles Jarvis shares his experience of attending DeliverCon 2020, the government conference for Delivery Managers, in Newcastle.

Running an engaging away (game) day

Joshua Kuforiji, 20 April 2020 - Skills and Learning, Uncategorized, Working at GDS

The Technical Operations (TechOps) department of GDS came together and took part in a department-wide ‘game day’. Find out more about what a game day is and what we actually did.

GDS Academy launches new course: Research and design in government

GDS Academy team, 4 January 2018 - GDS Academy, People and Skills, Skills and Learning

When the Academy moved to Government Digital Service (GDS), it put us in an ideal position to collaborate with digital, data and technology communities from across government to understand their learning and development needs.

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