The Institute of Coding: Addressing the UK Digital Skills Crisis

James Davenport; Rachid Hourizi; Alan Hayes; Tom Crick

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The Institute of Coding: Addressing the UK Digital Skills Crisis

James Davenport, Rachid Hourizi, Alan Hayes, Tom Crick

Swansea University

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 3rd Conference on Computing Education Practice, CEP 2019
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450366311
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3294016.3298736
Publication status	Published - 2019

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The Institute of Coding: Addressing the UK Digital Skills Crisis. / Davenport, James ; Hourizi, Rachid ; Hayes, Alan et al.
Proceedings - 3rd Conference on Computing Education Practice, CEP 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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