Digital learning (ICT)

Although Skills for Life is now being referred to as "English & Maths", digital learning and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) remains as important as ever.

Every day, more jobs become dependent on ICT skills, and government services, banking and even social lives are managed more easily by those who know their way round a computer or smart phone.

ICT training at all levels forms a large part of the work of trade union-led learning centres around the country, and unionlearn works in partnership with many organisations, including the Online Centres Foundation (formerly UK Online Centres) and Go ON UK, to help provide access to opportunities for people to develop or improve computer and internet skills.

Trade union use of ICT to support learning

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This report was commissioned by the TUC's Building Opportunities Through Workplace Learning Project, to draw an accurate picture of the scale and types of use of ICT by trade unions in support of learning, either in workforce development or trade union education. The report is based on five case studies of trade union use of ICT in support of learning in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK, and one of trade union education at the transnational/European level.