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

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

IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON'20)

Swansea University Author: Tom Crick Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1109/educon45650.2020.9125272

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The Institute of Coding (IoC) is a new £40m+ initiative by the UK Government to "transform the digital skills profile of the country". In the context of widespread national and international educational and economic policy interventions, it responds to the apparently contradictory data tha...

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Published in: IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON'20)
ISBN: 978-1-7281-0931-2 9781728109305
ISSN: 2165-9559 2165-9567
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