I.C.T. skills gap

The CBI has called for businesses and the government to boost digital skills, saying that there were too few graduates with digital skills, such as web design or computer programming, for the jobs available. However, a survey of 2,000 parents by the technology company O2 found that 23% of parents thought skills such as coding were "irrelevant". O2 said that this showed a "disturbing disconnect" between skills in demand from employers and those valued by parents. They said that 750,000 digitally skilled workers will be needed by 2017 to satisfy Britain's "digital potential". Twice the number of UK students took up degrees in Medicine compared with Computer Science between 2012 and 2013