WOMEN IN DIGITAL AT SHIPLEY COLLEGE.

At Shipley College we are proud that we have such a high percentage of female students on our Digital courses. In some classes 75% of the students are female and across all our Digital courses 20% are female!

Lydia and Maddie are two of our Digital Marketing apprentices, they both decided to move to Digital courses because of the future career opportunities: 

‘I decided to go down this route because it's a different way of being creative. Before starting this I was doing a make up course but I wanted to try something different. It's great to see how social media can be used to make a positive difference, and it also means you can basically get a job anywhere because most businesses have a social media role which needs a specialist who knows what they are doing! I decided to come to Shipley College because not many other places do a Digital Marketing Apprenticeship. I really like it here, the tutors are very welcoming.' - Maddie

‘I previously studied hairdressing but wanted to move to a Digital course. This apprenticeship was a great opportunity for me, everything is digital now so there are lots of different jobs for me to go into when I finish my apprenticeship.’ - Lydia 

Rojeen and Amy are two students on our T Level Software Programming course. They both decided to start a Digital course because they want a career in tech:

‘I have always had a fascination with programming so I wanted to pursue it as a career. Tech is a very big thing and there are lots of jobs in it, especially for women as lots of companies want to encourage women into Digital. I went on work placement with Exa Networks and it was a great experience. I got to ask lots of questions and find out what it's like to work in the digital industry’ - Amy

Sana and Zaynab both progressed from a Level 2 IT course onto Level 3:

‘I have always been interested in IT and enjoyed learning about it. I want to work in Data Analysis so this course has been a great place to start. My favourite unit so far has been E-commerce, I find it really interesting which means it comes easily to me! I came to Shipley because it's a smaller college with smaller classes so you get more attention from the tutors’ - Sana 

‘I always knew I wanted to study IT as it's something I’m interested in. I'm not sure what job I want in the future but I do know I definitely want to be working in Digital. My favourite aspect of the course is the more practical tasks like connecting the computers to the network’ - Zaynab