Millions in UK struggle with digital literacy: Lloyds
The results of the latest Lloyds Bank UK Consumer Digital Index suggest millions of people are not gaining from the internet.
More than 11 million people in the UK do not have basic digital skills. One out of every 11 completely eschew the internet.
According to Doteveryone’s Basic Digital Skills measure 1.1 million UK adults have gained basic skills in the past year. Overall, 49 per cent of people aged 65-plus have Basic Digital Skills, a rate which rises to 97 per cent for those aged 15-24.
Of the 1.1 million showing improvement, Lloyds Banking Group managing director of consumer and commercial digital Nick Williams said:
JOB seekers with an interest in the digital and technical sectors are invited to attend a virtual jobs fair. The Heart of the South West LEP (HotSW LEP) Digital Skills Partnership will hold a virtual jobs fair on May 26 to connect hundreds of skilled digital and technical learners with employers in the south west. The Train4Tomrrow jobs fair will give adults in Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay the chance to connect with employers from sectors including cyber, data science, digital healthcare, software, digital marketing and construction. Charlotte Collyer, Digital Skills Partnership manager at HotSW LEP, said: Digital and technical employers are invited to attend the jobs fair to showcase their business to hundreds of newly trained learners and to access the new talent which has been developed in the region.
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A campaign has been launched to provide hundreds of children across Cornwall with the kit they need to access online learning. There are more than 1,800 children in Cornwall without access to a computer or affordable data connection which means they risk falling behind in their education, especially during the Covid lockdown. This is despite more than 500 laptops being provided to Cornish schools by the Department for Education this month. Now the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Digital Skills Partnership (DSP) has teamed up with Newquay-based Crowdfunder, Cornwall Council and local businesses to launch the Kit4Kids campaign to help bridge the gap.