Category Archives: News

Live Online Interviews

Recent feedback on our online interviews has sky-rocketed! By popular demand, there are a number of informative interviews coming up; from The Weir Group to Beyond Analysis, there’s something for everyone. The excitement doesn’t stop in April though; we have eager engineers and data scientists already lined up for the month of May, thrilled to […]

Beyond Analysis joins the fight in tackling the UK data skills gap

Primary Engineer® is pleased to announce Beyond Analysis as a national funding partner for its STATWARS® Competition. The STATWARS® competition consists of two free-to-schools educational projects, focusing on using data to deliver meaningful and engaging mathematics, data handling and data visualising skills to pupils in primary and secondary schools across the UK. Both the STATWARS® […]

WarnerMedia calls ‘Action’ on Primary Engineer’s STATWARS® data project

Primary Engineer® is delighted to announce WarnerMedia as a national funding partner for its STATWARS® Competition. The competition consists of a free-to-schools STATWARS® Film & TV project, designed to inspire and educate young people about the power of data in decision making. As an educational project, it enables young people in primary and secondary schools […]

Vodafone partners with Primary Engineer to bring data into the classroom

STATWARS & Vodafone UK

Primary Engineer® is delighted to announce Vodafone as a national funding partner for the STATWARS® Competition. The competition consists of two free-to-school projects, STATWARS® Climate Change Challenge and STATWARS® Film & TV, both designed to inspire and educate young people about the power of data in decision making, the role it will play in their […]

Network Rail and Primary Engineer partner to develop data skills in young people

Primary Engineer® is delighted to announce Network Rail as a national funding partner for the STATWARS® Competition. The STATWARS® Competition consists of two projects – STATWARS® Climate Change Challenge and STATWARS® Film & TV – both designed to inspire and educate young people about the power of data in decision making, the role it will […]

Facebook UK and Primary Engineer focus on data to tackle climate change

STATWARS | Facebook

Primary Engineer® is delighted to announce Facebook UK as a National Funding Partner for the STATWARS® Competition. Facebook UK have become a national partner for the STATWARS: Climate Change Challenge to support in empowering and educating young people to actively tackle climate change. STATWARS  is an educational programme that hinges on using data to deliver […]

STATWARS CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE

On September 23rd 2019, Greta Thunberg addressed the UN at the Climate Change Action Summit. Her statement was a rousing one: “My message is that we’ll be watching you. This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come […]

Lights, Camera…Data!

National schools ‘STATWARS’ competition to be launched at DataFest 2019 Calling all budding Spielbergs, Attenboroughs, Boyles or Netflix fans! A national competition to design a film or tv series based on real-life viewer data will be launched March 14th at DATAFEST 2019 – the UK’s first ever two-week festival of data innovation in Scotland. The […]

STATWARS – CALLING FOR PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT

STATWARS® has been designed to encourage children and young adults in primary and secondary schools to engage with data and develop data analysis skills. This is currently being piloted in several primary and secondary schools in Scotland with funding from Skills Development Scotland Digital Fund and The Data Lab and it is supported by the […]