The engineers of 2030 and beyond must be digitally fluent to work alongside the rapidly expanding age of digitalisation.
Therefore, a central part of our work seeks to tackle the significant deficit of digital skills from school to lifelong learning.
The Council supports industry to:
- promote routes into digital careers and opportunities for the labour market to re-skill and up-skill to meet current and future employer needs.
- increase awareness of resources that enable pathways into digital and digitally enabled jobs for workers in non-digital roles.
- promote mechanisms to provide increasingly diverse access to digital roles and digitally enabled roles.
The Digital Skills Council is chaired by Paul Scully MP, Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy and Phil Smith, CBE FREng, Chairman of IQE PLC and Fellow of the Academy. Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE, Chief Executive, Royal Academy of Engineering is a board member.
The Education and Skills team at the Academy acts as Secretariat for the council.