The Woman On A Mission To Teach The World To Code | In Conversation With Kathryn Parsons
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🗓️ 3 August 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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In Conversation... Kathryn Parsons
Georgie Coleridge Cole is joined in conversation by Kathryn Parsons MBE, founder of Decoded, a tech start-up whose mission is to promote digital literacy. The two discuss Kathryn's unlikely path to tech entrepreneurship, the penny drop moment when she realised how fundamental introductory courses to coding would be to so many businesses, and the highs and lows of life running a business. They discuss the state of the national curriculum, the importance of learning digital skills, and Kathryn shares her top tips for rising to the top in the tech world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to today's in conversation with podcasts. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm Georgie College Cole, the founder of Sherlock. |
| 0:13.1 | I've really been looking forward to this one for a while. |
| 0:15.2 | I've been trying to line her up for an interview for a long time. |
| 0:17.5 | And finally, here we are. |
| 0:18.9 | Today I'm joined by Catherine Parsons, co-founder of |
| 0:22.8 | Decoded technology company on a mission to demystify the digital world. Having worked with |
| 0:31.0 | the likes of Unilever Nike, HSBC, Burberry, City and MasterC, and many, many more. Decoded has taught millions of people how to code, |
| 0:39.6 | opening up a whole new world of possibilities along the way. |
| 0:42.8 | After campaigning for coding to be made a mandatory part |
| 0:46.0 | of the UK national curriculum, |
| 0:47.8 | Catherine's vision became a reality in 2014, |
| 0:50.2 | making the UK one of the first countries in the world |
| 0:52.7 | to make this change. |
| 0:54.0 | It means that by 2025, |
| 0:55.6 | a generation will leave school for whom this kind of computational thinking will be the norm. |
| 1:02.2 | And it's hardly surprising then that she received an MBA in the Queen's Honor in 2015 for services |
| 1:08.1 | to education. Wow, that's quite an intro. Welcome, Catherine, from San Francisco. |
| 1:13.5 | Thank you so much for fitting this into your busy schedule. Gosh, I mean, there's so much to cover. |
| 1:18.9 | Can we go back, back to the beginning and just talk about your childhood, your education, |
| 1:25.0 | just sort of bring us up to speed. |
| 1:29.2 | Oh, wow, right back to my childhood. |
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