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As an indicator of the intransigence of the problem, New York University put out a study this week that said that girls as young as six believe that brilliance is a male trait and that that has a projected impact on their participation in school and their progression on through coded male subjects such as the STEM subjects that Anna Ritchie Allan mentioned....
Through the summer, that project ran a number of coding clubs and similar events that help to build the next generation’s interest in what we can do with digital skills.
However, I suspect that David Williamson’s sector will be as close as any to having it right, because the Scotch whisky sector has a specific six or eight-digit code that HMRC tracks, which we do not have for other sectors.
In particular, a package of the materials that are currently available will be launched at the same time as the revised code. Education Scotland will pull those materials together in a coherent package, which will be launched jointly with the revised code.
If there was a different rate, people’s pay-as-you-earn code would change because to a large extent that code is determined by the rate of tax that someone pays.
We have therefore taken the opportunity to revise the original codes comprehensively. We believe that the codes will be more fit for purpose.It might help if I set out briefly the background to each code.
Estimates for 2011 and subsequent years use a weighting scheme based on occupations which have been coded according to Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 2010 that replaced SOC 2000.