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The Institute of Coding: A University-Industry Collaboration to Address the UK Digital Skills Crisis

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

Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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DOI (Published version): 10.1145/3287324.3293834

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The UK is not the only country with a serious digital skills crisis, but it is one with a formal Government inquiry (The Shadbolt Report) and response. It also has very detailed tracking of people into, through and out of higher education into employment. The Institute of Coding (https://instituteof...

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ISBN: 978-1-4503-5890-3
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 2019
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