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Focus on data literacies and ICT proficiency: The importance of digital capabilities

A “mistake” resulted in the “leak” of 780 e-mail addresses of patients who attended an HIV clinic in London. From the BBC News website. A London sexual health centre mistakenly leaked the details of nearly 800 patients who have attended HIV clinics, bosses have admitted. The 56 Dean Street clinic in Soho sent out the […]

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Spotlight on digital capabilities

UCISA’s Spotlight on digital capabilities conference provided two days tucked away in Media City, Salford, with excellent speakers and delegates, to talk about a topic very much top of my agenda at the moment. The event covered both staff and student capabilities, and the inter-relationships between the two, and attracted interested delegates from a wide […]

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Data literacy: challenges and approaches

One area of digital capability which has been flagged up as a key challenge at the moment is around data literacy for both staff and students. Although data literacy is most closely associated with information literacy, it cuts across many of the different areas of digital literacy. For example, in the model we use in […]