Although current statistics show that 12,500 girls in the UK took computing at GCSE level in 2016 – a huge and positive leap on the 5,700 in 2015 – they still only make up 20 per cent of the total students studying the subject.
The IT sector skills council e-skills UK – now known as The Tech Partnership – says the industry needs about 140,000 entrants each year. Last year, the UK had 16,440 computer science graduates, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency, leaving a shortfall of around 120,000 per annum.
With headline statistics like these so blatant, it comes as no surprise to hear that we need to encourage more girls into IT and computing – it’s a no-brainer.
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