GCHQ funding 'nano-degree' courses to boost the number of female coders

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GCHQ funding 'nano-degree' courses to boost the number of female coders

Women currently make up just one-third of the GCHQ workforce

The UK's intelligence and cyber agency GCHQ is seeking to expand the number of female programmers among its ranks in order to combat a wide variety of threats, including those posed by foreign powe...

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