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hillingdontoday · 1 year

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Northwood school scoops third award in year for digital curriculum

A Northwood school and its partners has been recognised with its third global award in 12 months, after being named winner of the ‘Education and Employment Project Award of the Year’ at the Datacloud Global Awards. The award, which was presented to Northwood based UTC Heathrow and its partners, for the second year running, recognises the ongoing success of the schools initiative, which sees ten industry employers collaborating with them to create and deliver an exclusive curriculum for the digital infrastructure - the Digital Futures Programme. Aimed at 14-19-year-olds, the programme aims to tackle the industry’s skills shortage and drive new talent into the digital infrastructure industry. Industry partners include CNet Training, Amazon Web Services, Ark Data Centres, CBRE, CyrusOne, Kao Data, LMG, Soben, Virtus Data Centres and Yondr Group. #northwood #utcheathrow #school #award #awards #digital #digitalcurriculum #activatelearningeducationtrust #datacloudglobalawards #dga #digitalfuturesprogramme #digitalinfrastructure #cnettraining #aws #amazonwebservices #arkdatacentres #cbre #cyrusone #kaodata #lmg #soben #virtusdatacentres #yondrgroup Read the full article

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hillingdontoday · 1 year

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Northwood school scoops award for digital curriculum at Data Centre World presentation

Northwood school, UTC Heathrow, has won the ‘Best Talent Developer’ award at the prestigious Data Centre World which was given in recognition of the school’s Digital Futures programme, a UK-first engineering and IT curriculum which launched in November 2021, designed to help combat a skills gap in the digital infrastructure industry. #utcheathrow #northwood #school #award #digitalcurriculum #education #datacentreworld #besttalentdeveloper #best #talent #developer Read the full article

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hillingdontoday · 1 year

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Northwood school launches partnership to help build technical careers in data centres

Northwood based UTC Heathrow, has launched a partnership with high performance data centre operator Kao Data, which will see its people working alongside the school to deliver a co-teach a programme of learning based on the data centre sector. Developed in collaboration with leading data centre industry organisations, the Digital Futures Programme, a first for any UK school, allows students to gain the essential knowledge and skills needed to thrive in technical careers within the data centre sector. This sector is currently experiencing booming growth, but is facing an ongoing skills shortage. The Digital Futures Programme, now in its second year, is helping to future-proof the industry by inspiring a new generation to join it and enjoy a rewarding career. #Northwood #UTCHeathrow #KaoData #DigitalFuturesProgramme #partnership #technicalcareer #technicalcareers #rewardingcareers #rewardingcareer #coteach #programme #learning #sector #essentialskills #skills #knowledge #datacentres #datacentre Read the full article

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hillingdontoday · 2 months

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