{"id":6853,"date":"2022-08-29T10:38:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T08:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/29\/gchq-seeks-to-boost-number-of-female-coders-to-tackle-threats\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T10:38:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T08:38:21","slug":"gchq-seeks-to-boost-number-of-female-coders-to-tackle-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/29\/gchq-seeks-to-boost-number-of-female-coders-to-tackle-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"GCHQ seeks to boost number of female coders to tackle threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK intelligence service funding \u2018nano-degree\u2019 courses in effort to improve diversity in technology roles<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s intelligence services want to boost the number of female coders in their ranks warning they need to improve diversity to tackle threats ranging from foreign states to child online safety.<\/p>\n<p>GCHQ, the UK\u2019s intelligence, security and cyber agency, is funding 14-week \u201cnano-degrees\u201d in data and software to help women who might have previously been put off coding to make a career change. The agency celebrates the birthday of Ada Lovelace, the daughter of the poet Lord Byron credited by some as writing the first computer programme in the early 1840s. But in 2022 only a third of staff at the agency are women, and fewer are in technology roles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/aug\/29\/gchq-female-coders-boost-nano-degree-courses\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/da743c2611f45b4903c0ceaa7a09685264512be0\/0_233_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5df31f2db89447c2615ace06ec576806\" title=\"GCHQ seeks to boost number of female coders to tackle threats\" \/>UK intelligence service funding \u2018nano-degree\u2019 courses in effort to improve diversity in technology roles<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s intelligence services want to boost the number of female coders in their ranks warning they need to improve diversity to tackle threats ranging from foreign states to child online safety.<br \/>\nGCHQ, the UK\u2019s intelligence, security and cyber agency, is funding 14-week \u201cnano-degrees\u201d in data and software to help women who might have previously been put off coding to make a career change. The agency celebrates the birthday of Ada Lovelace, the daughter of the poet Lord Byron credited by some as writing the first computer programme in the early 1840s. But in 2022 only a third of staff at the agency are women, and fewer are in technology roles. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK intelligence service funding \u2018nano-degree\u2019 courses in effort to improve diversity in technology roles Britain\u2019s intelligence services want to boost the number of female coders in their ranks warning they need to improve diversity to tackle threats ranging from foreign states to child online safety. GCHQ, the UK\u2019s intelligence, security and cyber agency, is funding &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/29\/gchq-seeks-to-boost-number-of-female-coders-to-tackle-threats\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GCHQ seeks to boost number of female coders to tackle threats<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}