“The pandemic led to more people making the most of video conferencing for work, but it also provided access to remote education, which gave a boost to the edtech sector. Online learning will continue booming as the numbers seeking flexible job training post-Covid will rise.” Read more here.

“We can respond to this unprecedented situation by creating a new path into tech that is inclusive and diverse. This is the moment for tech employers lucky enough to be hiring to recruit exceptional people from diverse backgrounds who may not have selected software engineering as a first career.” Read more here.

“Coding bootcamp operators must actively engage with issues of access, diversity and inclusion if they want to stop reproducing the same gendered, racialised and class-based outcomes the tech sector keeps promising to address.” Read here.

“As Clare reports, alongside the Women in Software list, the bootcamp is also this year launching a Changemakers list to highlight people making a positive change to diversity and inclusion in the UK’s tech sector.” Read here.

“When we launched the UK’s first Women in Software initiative, our vision was to get the tech community to put forward female colleagues that made vital contributions in the tech sector. We also encouraged the individual women to nominate themselves. The response was overwhelming – and revealed what we knew all along – that there’s an exciting and powerful pool of female talent that is making its helping to shape our digital future.” Read here.

“We know that when talking about diversity in tech, it really doesn’t end with gender. We want to do a lot better. We know there’s a lot more work to do. But by changing the narrative around gender, we can begin to change other aspects of diversity as well.” Read here.

“Makers Academy often receives requests from firms to provide software engineers from minority groups in a well-meaning but misplaced attempt to address the lack of diversity in technology. The organisation’s 12-week software engineering training course uses an inclusive but selective process to give those seeking a career change the skills they need, not only to code but to learn and develop continuously to cater to the fast-paced world of tech.” Read here.

“I was interested in starting this particular business as I saw that in the world powered and shaped by technology, we must make sure that technology is used in the interests of society and not just its creators. The Makers training program is designed to have strong values of holistic development, community spirit and adopting an interdependent mindset.” Read here.

“Opinion varies about just how bad computer science university degrees are in preparing students for the world of work. But the reality is that a host of alternative coding schools have sprung up in an effort to plug the gap.” Read here.

“Coding apprenticeships will be very popular in the future, because of how accessible it makes the industry for people who didn’t consider it an option earlier.” Read here.

“Created in partnership with Makers, London’s leading software development programme, Code Ready gives frontline employees in Vodafone retail stores and contact centres the opportunity to retrain as developers in just 16 weeks. It’s fully funded by Vodafone, so employees don’t need to pay a fee to learn to code.” Read here.

“From our first year we offered a discount to female applicants to make the course slightly more accessible and to send a signal that women, being underrepresented in tech for no good reason, are particularly welcome to apply.” Read here.

“With only 19% of the tech workforce in the UK made up of females – Makers Academy and Level39 are taking on the challenge and highlighting the leading women that are increasingly shaping the future of forward facing businesses in Britain.” Read here.

“The industry shaping so many aspects of our lives represents only a small minority of society. Women make up 49 percent of the British workforce but just 19 percent of the digital tech workforce. The proportion of female tech and telecoms professionals is four percent; a figure that has continued to fall since 2007.” Read here.

“We are proud to be in a position where we are successfully training the next generation of women developers and doing our part to close the gender divide in tech, but we need to do more to level the playing field and advance women to the top of the tech sector.” Read here.

“If women are still not progressing, scrutinise the criteria. Is there a particular, non-diverse idea of what “success” looks like? Are some characteristics prioritised over others? These systemic issues cannot be solved just by training women – they must be solved by addressing biases in the organisation itself.” Read here.