Mind the digital skills gap

The dig­i­tal skills gap in the UK has been described as “cat­a­stroph­ic” and a “dis­as­ter”. Num­bers tak­ing IT sub­jects at school is falling as demand for dig­i­tal skills in areas such as AI, cloud and robot­ics is soar­ing. Why, when busi­ness­es want to hire peo­ple with dig­i­tal skills, are so few inter­est­ed in gain­ing a ground­ing in this area?