TY - GEN
T1 - The Institute of Coding: Addressing the UK Digital Skills Crisis
AU - Davenport, James
AU - Hourizi, Rachid
AU - Hayes, Alan
AU - Crick, Tom
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The Institute of Coding is a new £40m+ initiative by the UK Government to transform the digital skills prole of the country. In the context of signicant national and international education and skills policy scrutiny, it responds to the apparently contradictory data that the country has a digital skills shortage across a variety of sectors, yet the university system produces computing graduates every year who end up unemployed, or underemployed. In this paper, we describe the background and evidence base for the Institute of Coding, its key themes and current activities, as well as reecting on potential replicability of aspects of the Institute to other nations or regions with similar ambitions.
AB - The Institute of Coding is a new £40m+ initiative by the UK Government to transform the digital skills prole of the country. In the context of signicant national and international education and skills policy scrutiny, it responds to the apparently contradictory data that the country has a digital skills shortage across a variety of sectors, yet the university system produces computing graduates every year who end up unemployed, or underemployed. In this paper, we describe the background and evidence base for the Institute of Coding, its key themes and current activities, as well as reecting on potential replicability of aspects of the Institute to other nations or regions with similar ambitions.
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U2 - 10.1145/3294016.3298736
DO - 10.1145/3294016.3298736
M3 - Chapter in a published conference proceeding
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings - 3rd Conference on Computing Education Practice, CEP 2019
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
ER -