Just one in five computing graduates in Ireland are women, an imbalance which education initiative in Galway et al. aims to deal with .
NUI Galway is one among the upper education partners taking within the education outreach programme being unrolled nationwide Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software.
CodePlus aims to focus on 10,000 girls attending secondary schools throughout Ireland over the course of subsequent two years to
Lero’s Dr Cornelia Connolly of NUI Galway’s School of Education said the goal of CodePlus is to redress the imbalance in CS graduates beginning of Irish third-level colleges.
“When you check out the odds of all undergraduate degrees in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) awarded to females over the last seven years it’s stuck at just 18%, and a lowly 20% for CS courses.”
We need teachers and students to check in for CodePlus. Young women are missing out on great careers in computing and Computer Sceince needs more women designing for and with women; developing and leading the way,” Dr Connolly continued.
According to Clare McInerney, Education and Public Engagement Manager with Lero, research into the CodePlus initiative shows it positively impacts female lyceum students.
“The CodePlus programme may be a powerful, non-formal outreach project encouraging adolescent girls to explore careers in computing ,” she said.
The under the SFI Discover Programme and can encourage, facilitate and supply opportunities to teenage female students to interact with computing .
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