Theresa May announces £40 million fund to close the UK's digital skills gap

Tom Allen
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The private sector and academia will come together in the Institute of Coding, to train new graduates and retrain the existing workforce

Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that the UK government will put £20 million in funding towards the foundation of a new organisation, dedicated to supporting training and retraining in digi...

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