Getting into a career in tech.

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DD is 23, has a 2.1 degree in English lit and teaches English in a secondary school. She hates it and feels she has made a huge mistake. She would like to change career to something in tech. She has always been quite scientific and is good at maths.
She is looking at "crash courses" in tech and wonders whether they are a viable route into this area. In particular there is a company called North coders that offers an intensive 14 week course, for £7k.

DH and Ihave never heard of these courses and wondered if they are legitimate or if she is wasting her money.
We would be grateful for any advice really from anyone working in a tech field.

What does she mean by tech? Programming? There are tons of free courses online so not sure why she'd need to pay. Most people are self taught I think.

There are also data science Masters conversion courses she could do with a Masters loan.

I think she needs to be more specific though, and maybe try and get some experience or talk to someone in the field to get an idea of the reality. Rather than using it to try and escape teaching.

Lots of free courses on futurelearn and coursera- learn coding. A masters is a good idea.

Oh thanks for the speedy replies, yes data science is what she is thinking of. She has friends doing similar roles and has an idea of what their work involves from them. They went into it from school though rather than retraining. She is not the extrovert that teaching demands.

In that case I'd suggest she does a few coursera courses on line then looks at something like this:

www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-taught/taught/data-science-and-artificial-intelligence-msc-year-in-industry/overview/

Look at the conversion courses Office for Students have launched to get people into data science. There are 10k bursaries available.

They're possibly a bit lengthy, and I'm not sure how many are available right now, but DD may be interested in a data science apprenticeship with integrated degree (level 6 or 7). You can find one here www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeshipsearch

www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/data-scientist-(integrated-degree)-v1-0

Or Google shows GSK, astraZeneca and others have data apprenticeships too. The government stats service one would be good too.
uk.gsk.com/en-gb/careers/apprenticeships/degree-apprenticeships/data-scientist-degree-apprenticeship/

gss.civilservice.gov.uk/careers/gss-apprenticeships/data-science-apprenticeship-level-6/

And also depends if she's happy being stuck on £18k for 3 years!

You are all amazing, thanks so much for your help.

DD's bf works in tech and he rates Northcoders for an intensive coding course ( he's actually suggested it to our Ds who's just graduated with BSc in Geography and Environmental Science as a way into tech field )
Alternatively look at Grayce for careers with tech...my dd did an HR degree and now works as a recruitment consultant for the company and they're always looking for the right graduates to place with top companies
www.grayce.co.uk/development-programme/selection-process/
www.grayce.co.uk/