Capital jobs firm links up with Codeclan to offer scholarship

Edinburgh-based IT recruitment firm Cathcart Associates is launching a new scholarship scheme with digital skills academy Codeclan.

The initiative will be targeted towards applicants from lower-income households who may not be able to pay the tuition fee for Codeclan’s 16-week professional software development course. Applications for the £5,000 scholarship are now open and the closing date is 12 April.

Applications for Codeclan’s programme have grown significantly since the establishment of the coding academy in 2015 with more than 350 people graduating from its courses, which are run out of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Some 90 per cent of Codeclan graduates gain employment in Scotland’s expanding tech sector within five months.

Gordon Kaye, managing director of Cathcart Associates said: “As an IT recruitment firm we fully understand the digital skills landscape in Scotland and we want to help support the next generation of programmers to learn the skills necessary to begin a career in digital technology. “Codeclan is doing a brilliant job to retrain and supply the future workforce with essential digital skills and that’s why we wanted to offer this scholarship to a candidate who otherwise couldn’t afford the course.”

Codeclan is aiming to increase the number of women graduating from its courses to 40 per cent by 2020. 0 Gordon Kaye: understand the digital skills landscape