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IT Courses

Computers are changing the way that people live and work.  Access to information is widely available through the Internet, computers are used every more widely in work and the home, and the same basic skills needed to use computers are needed for other devices such as PDAs and mobile phones.  It is important for people to have IT skills to help them in the labour market, as well as life generally.  National, regional and local economic strategies focus on increasing the skills of the workforce, and IT skills are seen as an important part of that.  Effective and well-run IT courses are critical to helping people get such skills, and being able to evidence them through qualifications.

The sections below look deeper into IT courses in Hull, and peoples’ experiences of them.

Motivations for starting IT courses looks at the reasons why people decide to enrol on IT courses, as well as the reasons why some aren’t interested in them.

Barriers to going on IT courses explores those issues that stop people from starting an IT course, and ways that these barriers could be removed.

Starting an IT course looks at the process of enrolling on an IT course, such as how people found the course and why they chose it, and raises potential problems.

Experience of IT courses examines what was good and bad about the course, and what could be improved from a learner perspective.

Finishing an IT course looks at whether learners got what they wanted out of the course.

The IT courses that people want lists the courses that people have been on in Hull, and then looks at the specific skills that people wanted and courses that they wanted to enrol on.

IT courses in Hull summarises the overall findings from the research projects.

Encouraging people onto IT Courses looks at how those who have not been on an IT course could be encouraged to go on one.