TechUP is an exciting new Institute of Coding funded programme based at Durham University that retrains individuals into technology careers.
Women are significantly under-represented in the tech sector, with a limited pipeline of just 14% female Computer Science undergraduates studying in the UK. Encouraging women to retrain in technical skills is a powerful way of boosting this pipeline, and improving gender diversity across the sector. BAME women are more poorly represented still, with just 13.7% enrolling in higher education in 2017-18 in the UK across all subject areas.