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What it’s like to be part of the DDaT Fast Stream and how you can apply

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Applications for the Digital, Data and Technology Fast Stream programme are now open. In this post, Anna and Kevin – Fast Streamers based at GDS – talk about their experiences of the scheme and share their tips for applying.

Developing a learning approach for the content design profession

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The content community team is working to build effective, adaptable and scalable learning experiences for content designers across the public sector. Here's what we're doing to make learning work for everyone.

How we started the 'Muslims at GDS' community

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Arfah Farooq, a community development manager, and Dilwoar Hussain, a senior frontend developer, explain their personal motivations behind starting the 'Muslims at GDS' community, and share their top tips for setting up a community.

How we organise monthly mental wellbeing Q&As for GDS staff

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The GDS mental health network exists to provide our colleagues with the mental health support and information they need. We do this in a variety of ways. One of them are regular, anonymous, peer-led mental wellbeing Q&As. In this post, you will read about how we organise them and how to ensure they’re a success.

Learning to code at GDS

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We recently ran a series of learning sessions where we taught people who’d never written any code before how to build a simple website using Ruby, HTML and CSS. Here's how we did it and what our students learned.

Guest post: How we grew the Scottish Digital Academy

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In this guest post, Head of Scottish Digital Academy Tai McLennan looks back at how the Scottish Digital Academy has transformed into its current form, from beginning over an informal chat over coffee in Leeds to having over 900 graduates.