{"id":2641,"date":"2016-06-17T09:16:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T09:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:38","slug":"does-the-uk-have-a-digital-skills-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/06\/17\/does-the-uk-have-a-digital-skills-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the UK have a digital skills crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">According to the latest report by the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201617\/cmselect\/cmsctech\/270\/27002.htm\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Science and Technology select committee<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0 the \u2018<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">evidence is clear that the UK faces a digital skills crisis\u2019. \u2018&#8230;up to 12.6 million of the adult UK population lack basic digital skills.\u00a0 An estimated 5.8 million people have never used the internet at all.\u00a0 This digital skills gap is costing the UK economy an estimated \u00a363 billion a year in lost additional GDP\u2019.<br \/>\nThe report covers ICT provision in\u00a0 schools, higher education and employer\u2019s needs.\u00a0 Strategies for the future development are proposed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest report by the Science and Technology select committee\u00a0 the \u2018evidence is clear that the UK faces a digital skills crisis\u2019. \u2018&#8230;up to 12.6 million of the adult UK population lack basic digital skills.\u00a0 An estimated 5.8 million people have never used the internet at all.\u00a0 This digital skills gap is costing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,10,12,15,9],"tags":[334,65,93],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-education","category-management","category-media-and-communication","category-sociology","category-labour-market-studies","tag-digital-skills","tag-labour-market","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2642,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions\/2642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}