Digital Critical Friends

Digital Critical Friends aims to build upon the teachings you provide to encourage and inspire young people to study computing science and pursue a career in tech while helping industry form relationships with secondary schools.

How does the Critical Friends Programme work? You will be matched with a Digital Critical Friend (DCF) for 12 months. They will spend time with you sharing their knowledge and experiences of industry with you or whoever is responsible for delivering computing science in your school. They will help build your knowledge of industry current practice and emerging tech and how this can be shared with your students. All of our DCFs are STEM Ambassadors so are fully PVG checked.

You will connect flexibly, by video call, email or over coffee. This is your opportunity to find out the challenges and opportunities your partnership represents and engage in discussions about the current curriculum and industry practices, which can then feed directly into the teaching and learning within your school.

Want more information? Express your interest in participating in the programme to Nicola.taylor@scotlandis.com who will collate the necessary curriculum information from your school to ensure that a match to the most suitable DCF can be made.