{"id":8013,"date":"2021-11-25T09:57:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T09:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technocamps.com\/?p=8013"},"modified":"2021-11-25T09:57:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T09:57:09","slug":"transforming-digital-education-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technocamps.com\/en\/2021\/11\/25\/transforming-digital-education-in-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming Digital Education in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>We have engaged with 65,000+ pupils across Wales to improve the knowledge gaps in digital education.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past 20+ years, interest in, knowledge of, and capacity for computing and digital skills has failed to keep pace with the transformational rise of the digital society and economy. This has led to huge knowledge gaps in digital education, and an increasing deficit in recruitment into the digital workforce, especially amongst females.<br>\u00a0<br>Here at Technocamps, we aim to address these problems. Founded in 2003 at Swansea University, we have since established a Technocamps hub in the Computer Science Department of every University in Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We research, champion and deliver change in national curricula, qualifications, delivery and professional development to foster a sustainable digital skills pipeline in Wales. With our teacher training programme\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technocamps.com\/en\/technoteach\/\">Technoteach<\/a>, our business engagement operation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/instituteofcoding.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Institute of Coding in Wales<\/a>, and our research arm\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technocamps.com\/en\/programmes\/#section-research\">Educational, Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Computer Science (EHP)<\/a>, we engage with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; every school in the country to support computing teachers and students<br>&#8211; businesses of all descriptions looking to address their digital skills gaps<br>&#8211; all of the nation\u2019s universities along with academics working on the problem internationally<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of our workshops and training opportunities are free for the schools, companies and beneficiaries, thanks to substantial financial support from EU, Welsh Government and research council grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2011, we have engaged with 65,000+ pupils in Wales \u2013 8% of the Welsh population today aged 5-24 and with a near-even gender balance. We create an interest in the subject, particularly amongst young girls, to address a desperately under-represented community in the digital workforce. In particular, we delivered over 10 hours of workshops in almost every one of the nation\u2019s secondary schools to aid them in embedding a new Digital Competence Framework (DCF), a statutory initiative first proposed in a National Review we led on producing for Welsh Government in 2013.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>We have provided a year-long accredited\u00a0Technoteach programme of training to 100+ teachers across Wales who lack a formal ICT\/Computing background yet need to teach these subjects due to the shortage of qualified teachers (given that 75% of those teaching ICT\/Computing in Wales have no ICT\/Computing background). Our business-focussed\u00a0Institute of Coding in Wales\u00a0programme provides innovative CPD opportunities, in particular trailblazer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technocamps.com\/en\/programmes\/#section-degree-apprenticeships\">Degree Apprenticeships<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have engaged with 65,000+ pupils across Wales to improve the knowledge gaps in digital education. Over the past 20+ years, interest in, knowledge of, and capacity for computing and digital skills has failed to keep pace with the transformational rise of the digital society and economy. 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