1 24,000
girls in over 3,700 schools across the UK have benefi ted, with
participation growing at a rate of 1,000 girls a week by early 2008
Computer Clubs for Girls The impact of CC4G
The Computer Clubs for Girls (CC4G) programme
was devised by e-skills UK and employer partners
to help overcome the gender imbalance in the
65%
sector. Research had indicated that girls’ negative
of CC4G members are more likely to consider a career
perceptions were affecting their interest in IT careers,
in IT as a result
by the age of about 13 or 14 these attitudes were
tending to become entrenched.
In response to this, e-skills UK created CC4G, an
online club for 10–14 year-olds girls, typically held
89%
outside of school hours. Online activities and creative
projects bring IT to life in contexts to which the girls
of CC4G members want to continue with CC4G
can readily relate (e.g. fashion, celebrity, crime scene
investigation and music). Through CC4G, girls gain
an insight into the relevance of IT to every aspect of
their lives, and a better understanding of available 98%
career options.
of club facilitators believe CC4G is having a positive
CC4G is an employer-driven initiative and companies
impact on the girls’ achievement in IT at Key Stage 2 / 3
have provided more than £11 million worth of support
for the programme. Employers, large and small,
including: IBM, British Airways, Microsoft, JPMorgan
and the Royal Bank of Scotland, support clubs with
83%
funding, software, special events, volunteers who run
of club facilitators believe CC4G benefits the girls
clubs, and support for teacher training.
across all of the Key Stage 2 / 3 curriculum
CC4G won the World of Learning “Best Online
Solution of the Year” in 2004. The programme
was pioneered in the South East of England by the
South East England Development Agency (SEEDA)
and is supported by the Department for Children,
Schools and Families (DCSF). DCSF and e-skills UK
acknowledge SEEDA’s financial support and role as
a founding partner.
More information is available at www.e-skills.com/
CC4G and www.cc4g.net
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