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The Institute of Coding

James H. Davenport, Tom Crick Orcid Logo, Alan Hayes, Rachid Hourizi

CEP '19 Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Computing Education Practice, Pages: 1 - 4

Swansea University Author: Tom Crick Orcid Logo

DOI (Published version): 10.1145/3294016.3298736

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The Institute of Coding is a new £40m+ initiative by the UK Government to transform the digital skills profile of the country. In the context of significant national and international education and skills policy scrutiny, it responds to the apparently contradictory data that the country has a digita...

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Published in: CEP '19 Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Computing Education Practice
ISBN: 978-1-4503-6631-1
Published: Durham University, UK ACM 2019
Online Access: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3294016.3298736
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa45922
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Abstract: The Institute of Coding is a new £40m+ initiative by the UK Government to transform the digital skills profile of the country. In the context of significant 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 reflecting on potential replicability of aspects of the Institute to other nations or regions with similar ambitions.
Item Description: 3rd Computing Education Practice Conference (CEP 2019)
Keywords: Digital skills, Programming, Computer science education, Undergraduate education, Graduate education, Industry collaboration
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Start Page: 1
End Page: 4