skills

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Free training in essential digital skills

Do you know someone who would love to have some training in basic digital skills? Then this new Essential Digital Skills Qualification from Skills and Learning might be just what they are looking for! And it is free for anyone who needs it. This training is an opportunity to improve digital skills in a supportive… Read more Free training in essential digital skills

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Calling employers who want to recruit digital skills!

Train4Tomorrow is inviting local employers to host a table at their virtual jobs fair where they’ll have the chance to meet learners who have invested in their skills and successfully completed a government funded 12 week intensive digital bootcamp. Students have trained in one of the following areas: • DIGITAL INSIGHTS with Exeter College •… Read more Calling employers who want to recruit digital skills!

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Shaftesbury’s gadget gurus help Mandy get digitally savvy

Not so good with gadgets? Does the ‘D’ word and your  smartphone or computer hinder your life rather than help it… You aren’t alone.  In Dorset at least eight per cent of the population are not online at all and many more struggle with digital technology daily. Meet Mandy Greenwood from Shaftesbury who went from… Read more Shaftesbury’s gadget gurus help Mandy get digitally savvy

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Kudos for Dorset’s Digital Champions

If you think everyone must be online by now, think again. Lots of people aren’t confident using the internet and are becoming increasingly excluded as the world we live in becomes more digital. Superfast Dorset’s Digital Champion volunteers are working hard to change that in our county . . . and their support has now… Read more Kudos for Dorset’s Digital Champions