Improve your IT skills with e-skills UK
Boost your job prospects and stay in touch: build basic IT and internet skills
Build your IT skills and confidence with e-skills initiatives. We can help you make the most of everything the internet and technology has to offer.
Why get basic IT user skills?
Improved employability: 92% of new job recruits are expected to have IT skills.
Access to more job vacancies: 7m job adverts were posted online in 2009.
Staying in touch: half of internet users say the web increases contact with friends and family who live far away.
Better grades: children can achieve a 2-grade improvement in a subject at GCSE if they can get online at home.
Get a formal qualification valued by employers: find out about the ITQ <link to ITQ>
We’re helping make sure everyone has the skills they need to get online through working with our partners.
Initiatives include:
Online basics <link to: 8.6.1>: a free, easy-to-access basic IT course
supporting Race Online 2012 <link to 8.6.2>: a challenge to get the 9m adults in the UK who have never used the internet online using the web
Find out more about our IT programmes
Visit the Online basics website <link to: http://www.onlinebasics.co.uk/>
Learn more about Race Online 2012 <link to: http://raceonline2012.org/>
Build your IT skills and confidence with e-skills initiatives. We can help you make the most of everything the internet and technology has to offer.
Why get basic IT user skills?
- Improved employability: 92% of new job recruits are expected to have IT skills.
- Access to more job vacancies: 7m job adverts were posted online in 2009.
- Staying in touch: half of internet users say the web increases contact with friends and family who live far away.
- Better grades: children can achieve a 2-grade improvement in a subject at GCSE if they can get online at home.
Get a formal qualification valued by employers: find out about the ITQ
We’re also helping make sure everyone has the skills they need to get online through working with Go ON UK.
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