Concern for digital skills shortage exacerbated by A-level results

Record numbers of UK university places have been offered this year despite A-level results showing a marginal fall in top grades for the fifth successive year - BBC News reports. 

Despite this, the UK needs another 745,000 workers with digital skills by 2017, according to the recent ‘Digital Skills Crisis’ government report.

The average annual increase in the number of students taking A-levels in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects over the past four years barely “scratches the surface” of the UK’s shortage of engineers, AECOM reports.

With the digital skills gap costing the economy roughly £63billion a year in lost income, and with an annual talent shortfall of 69,000 (38%), raising awareness of digital career opportunities to students is imperative.