Skilling up

Lords report calls for overhaul of universities’ digital skills provision.

Universities must transform their digital education to meet employers’ needs if they are to continue as drivers of economic growth, according to the report of a Lords committee on digital skills.

The report, which describes itself as a “call to action” for the next government, says that the growth of digital technology will “challenge traditional methods of delivering education”. Degrees should equip students with more digital skills and adults should be given more opportunities to learn throughout their lives to adjust to a changing world, it says.