Make a great film with your mobile device – a step by step guide Want to make a film on your phone or tablet? We'll talk you through all the steps, from film theory and planning your shots to the importance of sound and how to make the edit easier.   Get started here: Now [...]

Beyond social capital: how the virtual revolution sparked by Covid-19 could level the careers playing field for underrepresented students Source: UK Black Tech There are more students from underrepresented backgrounds [1] at university than ever before but what happens when they graduate? The latest Graduate Outcomes data, looking at those who left higher education in [...]

‘You can’t have diverse video games without diverse people making them’ Since well before Lara Croft raided her first tomb in 1996, the video games industry has been weighed down by stereotypical images of gamers, often deservedly. For most of its history, players were widely seen as socially isolated, daylight-shy white males. But it’s now [...]

When I grow up I want to be… You might suppose that in today’s Insta world, where six of the seven largest companies are tech giants and Google has passed its 21st birthday, something digital, something tech, something 21st century might feature in the top career aspirations of today’s teenagers … but you’d be wrong.   [...]

Working better: three ways to improve labour market information for young peopleTechPathways London’s Caitlin McMillan spent a day at Nesta’s Working Better conference and came back with three key messages for improving careers information and advice in the 21st-century jobs market. Exploring labour market information at Nesta's Work Better event.   How we can anticipate [...]

Interview: George Ornbo, chief technology officer at Clearmatics WHAT DO YOU DO?   I'm the chief technology officer at Clearmatics, which is a core blockchain infrastructure company. We design and build protocols for permissioned  blockchain networks. The company was founded in 2015 and was originally a research collaboration between CEO Robert Sams and UBS. The [...]

Interview: Sèan Brazier, head of device management at the Parliamentary Digital Service DESCRIBE YOUR JOB   The Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS) supports all users at Parliament, across the country. My team (currently 11 people) manage the hardware catalogue (what computers, tablet and smartphones are available), getting operating systems onto these and applications onto those, plus [...]

Teaching games development: CPD with a plot twistTechPathways London's latest depth course offers face-to-face practical sessions and industry insight but also follow-up case studies to see the difference in the classroom Credit: CC #WOCinTech Chat In secondary classrooms, teachers face a challenge of how to meet the national curriculum requirements that “All pupils must have [...]