Accenture launches ‘Digital Skills’ programme to help address UK skills gap
Accenture has launched Digital Skills, a suite of online courses designed to help tackle the United Kingdom’s digital skills gap. The free courses aim to provide young people not in education, employment or training; entrepreneurs; people returning to work after an extended career break; and those looking to re-skill with the digital knowledge and skills required to thrive in the digital economy.
April 15, 2018
Accenture survey points to untapped opportunity for girls to fulfil their creative aspirations with STEM careers
Although the vast majority of young people in the U.K. (84 percent) believe that many jobs in the future will involve science, technology, engineering and mathematics—known as STEM—U.K. girls believe that STEM jobs lack the creativity they seek in their careers, according to results of a survey from Accenture.
March 15, 2018
Company culture is key to unlocking gender equality and narrowing pay gap
New research from Accenture has identified 40 workplace factors that create a culture of equality—including 14 factors that matter the most. The research, published today in the company’s “Getting to Equal 2018” report, details the most-effective actions that business leaders can take to accelerate advancement and help close the gender pay gap.
March 6, 2018
Accenture & Oracle Take West Midlands Police on a Journey to Cloud for Enhanced Operations and Data Sharing
Accenture and Oracle today announced that they have teamed with West Midlands Police (WMP) to successfully deploy a suite of Oracle Cloud applications designed to increase efficiencies and processes across the force. The project is one of the first implementations of cloud technology by a public safety agency in the U.K.
January 18, 2018
Accenture Publishes Gender Pay Gap 2017
Accenture today published its U.K. gender pay gap data for 2017, which measures the average difference in pay between men and women across a company’s workforce.
November 30, 2017
Accenture and British Triathlon Working Together to Improve Performance
Accenture has signed a four-year sponsorship deal to become a lead partner of British Triathlon.
August 31, 2017