The solution to employers' skills shortages is here!
If like many any UK companies you are suffering from an IT skills shortage and are worried about how your future competitiveness will be affected, then the e-Learning Foundation might just have the answer! By working to help all children have access to IT for learning, we hope that we are helping to ensure an industry ready workforce for the future.
As IT is fast becoming recognised as the fourth basic skill, all over the country Local e-Learning Foundations are springing up, spurred on by enthusiastic educationalist and parents. Through their fundraising efforts, pools of portable computers are being made available for the children who need them most for learning at home and at school. This way, they will have the same opportunities to succeed in their studies and in life as their peers whose parents can afford home computers.
And companies are being urged to contribute to this important cause. Fundraising Director, Simone Enefer said, "We've already received some important donations towards our Access Denied Appeal to create a grant fund for Local Foundations. People are recognising the importance of our role in ensuring they will a workforce to meet the demands of the our digital world."
Once such donation has come from Graham Wylie, founder of Sage, towards the establishment of an e-Learning Foundation for the North East. Graham said, "I see the establishment of the e-Learning Foundation network as the best solution currently on offer to address the emerging digital divide in our country and to provide our economy with an IT-literate workforce for the future. I am therefore delighted to support this vital initiative to create an e-Learning Foundation for the North East that will provide access to e-learning at home and at school for the children in the area who need it most. I am proud to be able to help give children from deprived backgrounds the chance to learn vital skills to help them break the cycle of disadvantage and enable them to participate in the digital world of the 21st century."
More supporters are required to help with this important work. The e-Learning Foundation's Chair, Rt Hon Estelle Morris MP says, 'It is a huge task, but we have to create more of a level playing field if we are to have the skills our nation and our children will need in the future.
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