A focus on diversity

We are passionate about closing the diversity gap and tackling the skills shortage within the UK tech sector, and we made a few changes to our model in order to achieve more meaningful results in this area. Unlike the majority of bootcamps in the market, we do not charge our learners any fees for the training. By adopting this approach, we believe it reduces barriers to entry, making tech careers more accessible, and attracts a greater diversity of candidates. This enables us to recruit individuals with diverse backgrounds, skillsets and life experiences; in turn, supporting you in building a more diverse workforce and encouraging greater gender, ethnic, age and cognitive diversity in the tech sector.

Supporting career changers & returners

We appreciate that it takes real courage to change career path, so as career changers, our TechSwitchers tend to be focused, driven, passionate individuals who aren’t afraid to start over and try something new. They are automatically more open to learning, thinking creatively, and collaborating. They bring with them a wide range of skills from their ‘previous lives’ which can lead to more innovative thinking and different ways of looking at problems and situations.

Commercially relevant training

Our 12 week bootcamp provides commercially relevant training, delivered by a team of people who work at the cutting edge of the tech sector, day in, day out. We have low learner to trainer ratios (maximum of 10 learners per cohort), which means that our learners get lots of 1 on 1 attention from an expert software engineer. The training equips our learners with the skills required to contribute to a wide range of projects. Learners have the opportunity to work on a number of short projects and exercises, increasing in scale and complexity over the course of the programme.

Junior developers with a genuine understanding

We believe that as a Developer, it’s far more important to understand the fundamental principles of Software Development than it is to know exactly how to do any one particular task. Everyone has access to resources such as Stack Overflow but those resources won’t usually help explain the bigger picture, or why one approach might be better than another. The most valuable employees are the ones who understand the objectives and requirements – even the ones that aren’t made explicit - and can use their own judgement and experience as they research the best way of implementing the detail.