The Institute Of Coding: Addressing The Uk Digital Skills Crisis

The Institute of Coding is a new 40m+ pound initiative by the UK Government to transform the digital skills pro.le of the country. In the context of signi.cant national and international education and skills policy scrutiny, it responds to the apparently contradictory data that the country has a digital skills shortage across a variety of sectors, yet the university system produces computing graduates every year who end up unemployed, or underemployed.In this paper, we describe the background and evidence base for the Institute of Coding, its key themes and current activities, as well as reflecting on potential replicability of aspects of the Institute to other nations or regions with similar ambitions.