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Closing the Gap
According to two women forging successful careers within IBM, the industry can address its gender gap by educating educators.
National Apprenticeship Week 2025: Shining a Light on Events & Opportunities, Empowered by techskills
Apprenticeships have the power to change lives, drive innovation, and fuel local economies. This year, techskills is proud to celebrate these incredible impacts during National Apprenticeship Week 2025. Don't miss out on upcoming events and apprenticeship opportunities within our Tech Industry Gold
The TechSkills.org Advantage: Universities Want Your Skills
Universities are on a recruitment drive, especially for tech-savvy students. The 2024 intake is set to be one of the largest, driven by a demand for tech skills that you’ve been cultivating. Whether your background is in A-Levels, T-Levels, or BTECs, TechSkills.org is here to support your next steps
TechSkills SME Regional Roundtable - London 24 July 2024
Welcome to the TechSkills SME Regional Roundtable - London event for a session filled with insightful discussions and networking opportunities. Join us at Northeastern University London (NU London) in beautiful St Katharine Docks on Wednesday 24 July 16:00 - 17:30.
TechUK’s Julian David Interview With TechBlast
“We have to transform UK into a hi-tech economy”
Tech Partnership Degrees To Join Forces With TechUK
Tech Partnership Degrees is to join forces with techUK as part of a strategy to accelerate the impact of employers acting collaboratively on UK digital skills.
Learner & employer stories
Apprentices, graduates and career changers on how they broke into tech.
Why Stories Matter in Opening Up Technology Careers
QA's Chief Learning Officer Jo Bishenden argues that widening access to tech careers takes more than creating opportunities - it takes visibility and confidence-building too, illustrated by the story of a learner who initially thought tech was "too advanced" for her before finding her footing through an AI workshop.
techUK“You get everything back”: James Stephenson on apprenticeships, opportunity and building a digital career
Automation, enterprise transformation, industry advocacy and a first-class degree, James Stephenson shares how employer-aligned learning helped shape his digital career through a Tech Industry Gold accredited apprenticeship
Eleven Years in Property. One Bold Move into Data.
A career change into tech can feel like a leap into the unknown. For Amanda Stephens, that leap became a transformative journey, one that has already led to industry recognition, real-world impact, and a nomination for Apprentice of the Year at the Apprenticeship Guide Awards 2026.
Why the UK's Biggest Tech Firms Are Doing Work Experience Together
Cisco, Accenture, Adobe and IBM have pooled resources into a single two-day work experience programme for Year 12 students, on the basis that the UK tech sector's diversity problem is too big for any one company to fix alone.
techUKHaydée Agras on Data, Football and Breaking Barriers in Sports Analytics
For many people, football is about instinct, passion and moments of brilliance on the pitch. But behind every match is an increasingly sophisticated layer of technology and data shaping performance, strategy and decision-making.
Combatting Imposter Syndrome: The Returners
AtkinsRéalis' Stephanie Williams looks at the imposter syndrome many women face returning to tech careers after a break, citing tens of thousands of women leaving UK tech roles each year and the real cost that represents to the sector.
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AI, data, cyber and the other specific technologies reshaping tech careers.
Same CV, 800 times: why AI-written applications vanish, and what to do about it
Claire MacLeod is a Gen Z career coach and founder of Career Pathfinder. Before that she spent twenty years in executive search, recruiting senior professional staff for UK universities. She works one-to-one with young people to help them find a direction and land work they are genuinely excited about. __careerpathfinder.me__
Is Critical Thinking the New Coding?
When Kant urged his readers to "dare to know" in 1784, he was challenging people to stop handing their thinking over to others. More than two centuries later, Helen Rantsevitch asks whether that challenge has ever mattered more. In this article, Helen tests a hypothesis: if coding defined the internet age, critical thinking will define the age of AI. To explore it, she brought together more than a dozen CTOs, educators, recruiters and talent leaders from organisations including Deliveroo, Hays, TCS and The Open University. They rarely agree. Some have all but stopped hiring junior developers. Others say nothing fundamental has changed, because they always hired for curiosity and communication rather than technical skill. Yet one theme keeps returning. As AI writes more of the code, human value lies in judgement: framing the right problem, questioning the output and spotting when the machine is confidently wrong. The piece blends philosophy, real hiring practice and a Socratic challenge for the modern CTO. It is a thoughtful read for anyone shaping the next generation of tech talent.
Helen RantsevitchThe Learner's Edge in the AI Era
AI tools are now part of everyday working life, and entry-level roles are feeling the pressure. In this article, Blessed Pepple, Founder at Setlwork, argues that technical skill matters more than ever, because it is what helps you spot when AI output looks right but isn't. He then sets out five human capabilities, drawn from established research, that help learners act on that judgement: reflective practice, emotional intelligence, resilience, self-efficacy and adaptive communication. Each comes with a practical tip to try.
Blessed PeppleNever Stop Wondering: Why Curiosity Is the Missing Skill in AI Upskilling
Asking questions is how we learn, yet many of us stop doing it far too early. For Daniel, founder of Galagog and former Amazon employee, that moment came in a Year 8 chemistry lesson, and it has shaped his thinking ever since. Having supported thousands of people to use technology, data and AI more confidently in their work, he sees the same hesitation everywhere: capable people holding back, waiting for permission, convinced they are "not technical". In this thoughtful piece, Daniel makes the case for curiosity as an essential skill in an AI-driven world, and explains why educators and employers have a shared role in giving people the confidence to experiment, question and grow.
Daniel WilsonBeyond the Silos: Why the UK's 2035 Economic Ambitions Require an Open Infrastructure
techUK argues the UK's digital infrastructure is at a genuine turning point: keep building isolated, incompatible platforms and risk 'platform sprawl', or commit to open, standardised architecture that keeps skills and systems portable across cloud, government and industry.
techUKWelcome to techUK's 2026 Tech & Innovation Focus Week
techUK's 2026 Tech & Innovation Focus Week brought together member organisations across robotics, agentic AI, photonics, quantum and tech convergence, alongside a new photonics report and upcoming events including November's Tech and Innovation Summit.
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