Siemens and UK Government Launch Learning Hub to Plug Digital Skills Gap
- Thursday, February 28th, 2013
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Siemens has launched an education and careers platform to help inspire more young people in the UK to become engineers.
The digital hub has been ‘explicitly designed to encourage young people to engage with engineering and manufacturing related subjects’, with many software, electronic and mechanical engineers now going on to work in the mobile industry.
The company is working with the Cabinet Office, Department for Education and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to open the education portal for teachers, students and parents to access relevant information. It will be rolled out to 5,000 schools by 2014, aiming to reach more than 1.95m pupils in the first year and 4.5m by 2016.
Siemans launched its first mobile phone in 1985 and released more than 100 handsets before it sold this arm of its business in 2005.