Sponsor Your Employees An opportunity to increase productivity, drive innovation and fill the digital skills gap in your organisation
What is Digital Skills Academy? Digital Skills Academy is an established, innovative leader in digital technology education for working professionals and has a proven track record in rapid transformational skills development for our participants. What do we offer? We offer the world s leading online International BSc Degree programmes in digital skills, which develop techsavvy business professionals and business-savvy tech talent. Our degree programmes are taken part-time by working professionals over a oneyear period, in flexible online delivery modes. 2
Reasons for sponsoring your employees 1. Accelerate your business growth Investing in your employee s skills, career and educational development will benefit your organisation in a number of ways: Retain your top talent Fill your digital skills gap Enhance your organisations skill-set Increase the productivity of your teams Transform your digital capabilities advanced skills in problem-solving, decision-making, and design thinking. Our programmes teach the latest relevant technologies and tools, and our graduates are equipped to develop and deliver quality digital customer experiences. We provide technical digital skills training and digital business training combined with international project skills to produce industry-optimized talent that will help your organisation gain a competitive advantage. 2. Gain a real business return on your investment A recent study by Capgemini Consulting found that: The study found that firms who invest in upskilling their talents with digital skills are 26% more profitable than their industry competitors They generate 9% more revenue through their employees and physical assets And they create more value, generating 12% higher market valuation ratios 3. Transformational skills development Our participants graduate with expertise and extensive experience of working in international cross-functional virtual teams (Coders, Data Scientists, Managers, Marketers, Sales Professionals and Designers working together) and with 4. Experience working on real world industry-assigned projects We produce industry-optimized talent with key soft skills, gained through extensive team based practical experience working on industry assigned projects with businesses and organisations. Projects can be complex websites, mobile apps, bespoke digital services, or other development initiatives 5. Programmes taught by respected industry experts Industry experts in the digital sector lead our programmes. Your employees will have direct access to and support from our academic team, which constantly strives to ensure they get the best possible experience and outcomes during their time on our programmes. 3
6. Curriculum designed flexibly for working participants Our online programmes are taken part-time over a twelve month period. They are designed be taken flexibly by working participants from their workplace or home environments (requires a min. of eight hours per week for forty four weeks over twelve months). 7. Internationally recognised accreditation Our International Bachelor of Science (BSc) degrees are awarded through our partner accrediting body, European University Association member, Dublin Institute of Technology. Dublin Institute of Technology is ranked in the top 200 universities globally under 50 years old (Times Higher Education, 2017). 4
97% of our 2016 participants recommend our programme to friends or colleagues 5
What our corporate partners say We cannot scale or move They will get a multi- The students worked with We are going to use these forward without creating disciplinary approach with ourselves and a company in digital skills to help us be capability. This engagement some real, practical challenges. Amsterdam. This gave the world class when it comes to will create an environment They will be exposed to a lot of project a global feel - a skills customer experience. where the skills gap will, slowly innovative thinking, techniques set they can take into many but surely, be closed. and trends. environments and companies. Mteto Nyati CEO, MTN South Africa Jovanka DamJanovic Fanie Van Heerden Shane Loughrey-Grant Agile and DevOps Lead Architect Core Banking TV Product Development Transformation Transformation, Standard Bank Manager at Virgin Media Standard Bank Group Group 6
What our participants say The ability to work with a What it gave me was new Studying a flexible, online, Digital Skills Academy are real cross-sector, geographically- skills and to be able to design part-time programme is the pioneers in creating this global diverse team was a useful for users and the UX theory best part of this course. I have digital capability. It s extremely skill, as it is very similar to the we were taught just helped us a very busy schedule and I relevant to this marketplace. demands of my own job. produce better products. wouldn t have made it if I had to attend physical classes. Carlo Baptista Andrés Espinosa Aceves Amanda Lucas (Ireland) Head of Change Governance Director Graphic Designer Leenesh Singh Barclays ProMéxico Head of Mobile Liberty Life 7
Profile of our graduates Whether you want to enhance the skill-set of your employees, completely re-skill them for a new role in your organisation or use their upskilling as part of your wider digital transformation strategy, our programmes will offer you a solution for rapid transformational skills development. Our programmes produce professionals for a wide variety of roles including: Web Developers, Mobile Applications & Game Developers Digital Product Managers Technical Project Managers for Web, Mobile Applications & Games Digital Sales & Digital Marketing Managers Responsive Designers for Web & Mobile Digital Designers & Digital Design Studio Managers Digital Communications Managers or Executives Data Scientists Data Analysts UX & UI Designers 8
Introducing our International BSc Degrees in Digital Skills The programme was intense yet highly rewarding to both my career and educational direction. I now have a skillset that is right up to date with the latest digital technologies and methodologies in the digital sector. Graduate Anthony O Rourke speaking about his experience of studying with Digital Skills Academy Your employees will have the opportunity to join our programmes at Honours or Degree Level, dependent on their prior education and level of career experience. Each participant has the opportunity to take a number of shared modules and choose one specialist stream. 9
BSc (Honours) Degree in Digital Technology, Design and Innovation Summary Start Date: October 9, 2017 One year, online and part-time programme Add-on degree programme with 60 ECTS credits (ECTS credits: European Credit Transfer System for Higher Education) Choose one of the following electives: Computational Thinking Or Industry, Entrepreneurship, Creativity & Innovation Shared Modules User Experience (UX) and Solutions Design Innovation & Agile Development International Industry Team & Entrepreneurship Team Projects Digital Design and Developers Stream Within the Digital Design and Developers Stream participants take one track of specialisation: User Interface Design (Track 1) Or Big Data Visualisation (Track 2) Application Development Stream Front-End Development for Web & Mobile Part 1 & Part 2 Mobile & Device Development Part 1 & Part 2 MVC Application Frameworks Computational Thinking Data Science Stream Data Science Part 1 & Part 2 Programming for Big Data Part 1 & Part 2 Data Analytics and Data Insights Computational Thinking Applied Design Technologies Part 1 & Part 2 HTML 5 Design Technologies 10
BSc (Honours) Degree in Digital Technology, Design and Innovation Digital Business Stream Digital Leadership & Management Technical Project Management Business Analysis for Digital Computational Thinking Industry, Entrepreneurship, Creativity & Innovation Data Analytics and Data Insights Digital Marketing Stream Skills for Global Digital Marketing Data Analytics & Data Insights Computational Thinking Industry, Entrepreneurship, Creativity & Innovation Digital Product Management Digital Marketing Strategy and Planning 11
BSc Degree in Digital Technology and Design Summary Start Date: October 31, 2017 One year, online and part-time programme Add-on degree programme with 60 ECTS credits (ECTS credits: European Credit Transfer System for Higher Education) Shared Modules International Team Industry Projects Entrepreneurship, Creativity & Innovation User Experience (UX) & Concept Design Elective: Digital Industries & Career Development Or Elective: Training & Facilitation for Digital Teams Digital Technology & Coders Stream Web & Device Programming Mobile & Web Applications Server-Side Web Development Digital Business Stream Within the Digital Business Stream participants take one track of specialisation: Track 1 - Project Management Specialisation Agile Project Management Technical Project Management Business Analysis for Digital Digital Marketing Campaign Management Or Track 2 - Marketing and Sales Track Specjalisation Digital Marketing Campaign Management Skills for Global Digital Marketing & Sales Elective: Technical & Specialist Sales Or Elective: Digital Marketing & Website Optimization Digital Designers & Developers Stream Front-end Web Development Web Graphics Design & Production Digital Marketing Campaign Management 12
Find out More about Sponsoring Your Employees Contact Digital Skills Academy EMEA (Including UK and Ireland) UK Kemp House, 152 City Road, London EC1V 2NX London: +44 203 588 2070 Edinburgh: +44 131 634 0200 Ireland Crane Street, The Digital Hub, Dublin 8, Ireland D08 R2YP Dublin: +353 1 690 8090 South Africa South Africa Head Office: 24 Fricker Road, Illovo, Johannesburg, South Africa Johannesburg: +27 10 500 9309 Cape Town: +27 21 300 9257 USA New York City: +1 929 214 1068 San Francisco: +1 415 854 9431 Website: DigitalSkillsAcademy.com Email: Degrees@DigitalSkillsAcademy.com Digital Skills Academy releases programme information in advance of the commencement date for the intake to which applies. We make every effort to ensure that the information provided is correct at the time of publication. However, program content - including modules, streams, tracks and electives - is subject to occasional change in response, for example, to digital market developments and changing customer requirements. 13