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A Selection of Related Stories

Here are some stories from the last 12 months which demonstrate the importance of ensuring that those in the workplace grow and maintain their IT and digital literacy skills. 

• Exams of future 'will be taken on laptops'
  
  The exam halls of the future should have students working away on laptops, rather than slavishly writing by hand for hours on end, it was suggested yesterday.
• Employer Skills Pledge proving unpopular
  
  With 7 million functionally illiterate and 58% of those employed as DSE users reporting Screen Fatigue let alone MSD's we may have to address the risks associated with visual stress resulting in VD (Vigilance Decremation) before worrying about more than just basic skills in the workplace.
• E-skills highlights IT skills shortage
  
  A new series of reports has predicted that the UK will need more than 140,000 new IT and Telecoms professionals per year over the next five years.
• Pioneering research shows ‘Google Generation’ is a myth
  
  A new study overturns the common assumption that the ‘Google Generation' – youngsters born or brought up in the Internet age – is the most web-literate. The first ever virtual longitudinal study carried out by the CIBER research team at University College London claims that, although young people demonstrate an apparent ease and familiarity with computers, they rely heavily on search engines, view rather than read and do not possess the critical and analytical skills to assess the information that they find on the web.