Future workforce
The challenges we identified:
•
Globalisation was causing rapid change in the UK’
in roles demanding sophisticated business and interpersonal skills as well as technicals IT & T
elecoms industry
competencies;
, with gr
owth


•
A dramatic decline in the uptake of IT

•
The IT
-related curriculum in schools was not a good match for the needs of students
-related degr
ees was evident; and,

or the economy
.

We set out to ensur
e that:

•
Technology-r
elated education pr
epar
es students for successful employment.

Our work has included cr
eating:

•
The Information T
•
echnology Management for Business (ITMB) degr
The Diploma in IT for 14–19 year
-olds.
ee pr
ogramme; and,
Key achievements to date:

•
The ITMB degr
ee is now being deliver
•
Mor
e than 300 students have benefited fr
ed by 13 universities, supported by 50 employers;
to 1,000 for the coming year;
om ITMB so far and application rates have gr
•
32 per cent of ITMB students ar

own

overall; and,
e female – double the pr
oportion for computing degr
•
Mor
e than 600 employers contributed to the development of the Diploma in IT
ees
.
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