Poor-quality training and 'sausage factory' courses leave companies struggling to recruit computer-literate workers.
Britain is facing a shortage of workers with programming skills, fuelled by poor-quality training courses in universities and colleges, which has left firms in fields ranging from advertising to Formula 1 struggling to recruit.
Leading companies interviewed for a new Guardian series say they require staff at a senior level to be computer literate, combining digital skills with the ability to lead a team. But they face delays in hiring the right staff, or have to give new employees extensive training because many computer science courses are nothing more than "sausage factories".
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/09/computer-science-courses-digital-skills
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Katia Frolova