What is the Academy for?

The National Skills Academy for IT is being set up to help ensure the UK has the technology skills it needs to compete in the global economy.

It will:

• increase the sector’s understanding of what a skilled, competent IT professional looks like
• harness the best IT training and development available and make it easily accessible across the sector.
• identify new training needs and ensure that training providers are equipped to meet them
• enable IT professionals to have their skills and qualifications formally recognised by their employers
• ensure the UK is recognised as the leading nation for IT skills development

It’s not just nice to have

Figures from e-skills UK demonstrate the urgent business need underpinning the Skills Academy.

• Making the most of IT could boost the UK economy by £35 billion, but only if we have develop world-leading technology skills.
• More than 1.5 million people work in IT and telecoms. Each year the sector takes on 110,000 new recruits into IT professional roles, and nearly two in three of them are required to move straight into demanding senior level jobs.
• Currently, fewer than one in four IT professionals will have received job-related training in the past three months.
  Source: IT and Telecoms Insights 2010, e-skills UK
 

Employers who have already become involved in the Skills Academy set up understand the urgency of the skills challenge. Join them by contacting us now

I just spent £10k training six guys and I’m not convinced it’s really what they needed.

Source: National Skills Academy for IT employer research, 2009