BIMA DDAY QUESTIONNAIRE ANALYSIS REPORT

D-Day Questionnaire Analysis

Prepared for BIMANovember 2012

Commercial In Confidence

Contents

1 Summary..............................................................................................................................3

2 Introduction..........................................................................................................................3

3 Results.................................................................................................................................4

4 Appendices..........................................................................................................................74.1 Appendix 1..................................................................................................................................... 7

4.2 Appendix 2: Feedback Received..................................................................................................12

D-Day Questionnaire Analysis // Survey compiled by Amaze // November 2012 2

1 Summary

This report provides feedback from students participating in BIMA’s D-Day 2012. A total of 502 participants completed the questionnaire, representing 28% of all participants. The survey highlighted:

A lack of awareness of the digital industry in its entirety and the breadth of career opportunities available. 63% of students surveyed were not aware of the many different jobs or opportunities in the digital industry.

A lack of resources and teaching in schools to make pupils aware of digital as a career. 75% of students surveyed had never seen any information on, or been taught about working in, the digital industry and 49% stated they did not know where to find out more information about digital careers.

A direct correlation between awareness of the digital industry and a desire to work within it. 74% of students surveyed stated that D-Day have made them think more about a career in digital.

A day such as D-Day can be an inspiring way to generate awareness and inject creativity, collaborative working and fun into the classroom (see Appendix 2 for feedback from teachers about the day)

A commitment from the UK’s digital agency sector to support young people and the education system to increase the number of skilled digital young professionals in the UK, as demonstrated by participation in D-Day and through the feedback received (see Appendices).

Fundamentally, there is a need for more information about what a digital career means and the vast and varying opportunities within this industry. The current perception of the digital industry amongst this next generation is that of a career based around ICT or coding, rather than understanding the full range of careers available. Once this awareness is achieved it is possible to see a huge shift in the number of young people who would consider a career in this industry.

2 Introduction

On October 10th BIMA launched a national campaign, D-Day (or Digital Day), with nearly 70 schools and 1,800 students involved in the one day event to get schools and young people involved in digital.

The aim of D-Day is to raise the awareness of the opportunities which exist within the digital industry, and also the variety of career options that are available for young people. D-Day set out to inspire the digital talent of the future and encourage a future generation of digital talent to come through.


Andrew Henning, Chair of BIMA’s Education team, said: “Digital agencies’ resources are in high demand as businesses increasingly see digital as the most lucrative and important part of their media campaigns.

“However, the demand for highly skilled and creative employees supersedes the talent available because the number of trained professionals is dwindling. We need to raise awareness of this great industry so students can begin planning a career in an industry that until now hasn’t been highlighted at schools and colleges.”

During the course of the day schools were visited by a digital agency, showcasing the UKs vibrant digital industry and raising awareness of the career options and opportunities. The students also participated in a digital challenge during the course of the day, with challenges including designing a mobile app, an innovative digital solution, a social media campaign, web coding or designing multimedia content.

At the end of D-Day, students were asked to fill out a questionnaire to find out more about their previous knowledge and perception of digital and the careers available, and to gauge the effect of D-Day.

3 Results

In total 502 questionnaire responses were received from the D-Day students. The collation and analysis of the responses given by students involved with D-Day highlights the lack of awareness this generation have of the career opportunities within the digital sector and also the perception they have of what a digital career involves.

Of a total of 502 students surveyed, 75% said they had never ‘seen any information on, or been taught about working in, the digital industry.’ (Fig 1) However, 65% of the students said that they had thought about digital jobs in the past. This shows the discrepancy between students’ interest in the subject, and the resources required for them to inform themselves, and make educated choices.

Prior to taking part in D-Day, 34% of the students said that they wouldn’t consider, or hadn’t considered looking for a job in the digital industry. Of those that had thought of going down a digital career path, the most popular areas of interest were gaming (15%), creative design (8%) and programming (5%). Looking at the answers of those students who said they had received some information about working in the digital industry at school (24%), the areas where students received the greatest amount of information and instruction were Creative/Website Design (19%), Game Design/Development (15%) and Programming (15%). (Fig 3).

When comparing the digital jobs that students mentioned being taught about at school or having awareness of prior to D-Day, with the digital jobs that students could imagine themselves doing following D-Day, it becomes clear that there were


large areas that students were either not aware of, or did not associate with the digital industry.

On the day the two teams from Amaze found that when questioning the students about what they perceived working in digital to involve most of the student’s perception of a digital career involved being highly skilled with ICT or having skills in programming and coding websites. It was clear that the students hadn’t realised the full scale of the opportunities available, or the varying skills that can be put to use within the industry.

Digital areas that students didn’t mention having awareness of, or as possible career options prior to D-Day included Social Media, Strategy/Planning, Research, Account/Project Management and Marketing. Again, the area where students had the most existing awareness, Design, was also the area where the most students could see themselves working.

This is supported by 63% of the students responding that they were unaware that ‘there were so many different jobs or opportunities in this industry’ (Fig 6). This reveals that there are misconceptions about the digital industry, including the fact that students were less aware of those roles that didn’t necessarily involve highly technical or creative skills (i.e. design and development). This could be an intimidating factor to those who do not consider themselves to have the skills required for these jobs.

Digital agency Quba commented on their blog that ‘We learned that there is a huge amount of raw creativity and talent out there, but that kids aren’t necessarily aware of the digital industry or the countless different jobs it offers. I personally feel that it’s been really worthwhile to show that work isn’t just about people in grey suits and boring offices, and that there are lots of really exciting opportunities to get out there and do what you love.’

Phil Heywood at Redweb also stated that ‘They didn’t realise the breadth of skills that are needed within a successful digital agency, that we’re not all designers and developers.’

When asked which were the most interesting activities conducted on D-Day, the students responses showed that the creative and design tasks were the most popular. Particular the task involving creating an app was very popular, perhaps because it gave the students insight into a product familiar to them.

Stating the activities they would like to learn more about, the students predominantly chose the areas that require further in depth knowledge and expertise, including Website Design (12%), Making Apps (15%), and Web Development (12%). However, the students also chose several topics that had not been mentioned in their responses prior to D-Day, including Marketing/Branding/Advertising (5%), Business Management (2%) and Design Tools (5%), showing that awareness had been raised of these other aspects of the digital industry. (Fig 8)


Tellingly, when asked whether they were aware of where to obtain additional information about digital careers, 48% of respondents answered ‘No’. This indicates the need for a better representation of the digital industries within careers counselling, work placement schemes, internship programs and student workshops. (Fig 9)

What becomes clear from the questionnaires is that the lack of young people taking up a career in digital is not due to disinterest but due to awareness, as, when asked whether at the end of D-Day they could see themselves doing any of the jobs mentioned, nearly 74% said ‘Yes’, with 5% saying ‘Maybe’. This represents a near reversal in the same statistic seen before the students took part in D-Day. (Fig 10)


4 Appendices

4.1 Appendix 1

Blank Yes No 0

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Fig 1. Have you ever seen any information on or been taught about working in the digital industry at school?

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Fig 2. Have you ever considered digital as a possible career option?


Creative/Website Design 19%

Game Design/Development 15%

Programming/Development 15%

Teamwork 2%

Graphics 5%

App Design 7%

All/Any 14%

None 9%

Teacher 3%

Film/Camera 5%

Other 6%

Marketing 2%

Fig 3. If you have seen information on, or been taught about working in the digital industry at school, which jobs did it focus

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Maybe/Don’t Know 2%Blanks 15%No 32%Yes 4%Creative Design 8%Animating 2%Game Design 13%Website Design 4%App Design/Creation 2%Programming 5%Web Development 0%Marketing 3%Media 4%Multi-Media 3%Other 2%

Fig 4. Were there any digital jobs which interested you at all before now?


PR 0%Marketing 2%UI Design 0%Research 1%Strategy/Planning 1%Gaming 4%Project Management 4%Creative 4%Web Design 27%Account Management 2%Multimedia 7%App Dev. 5%Creative 1%Programming 5%Web Development 3%Not Sure 4%None 0%Social Media 1%Other 1%Blank 28%

Fig 5. Of the jobs mentioned today, which can you see yourself doing?

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Fig 6. Were you aware that there are so many different jobs or opportunities in this industry?


Other 2%

Social 3%

Designing/Creating App 26%

Brainstorming Ideas 6%

Coding 3%

Planning 3%

Speech/Presentation 3%

Creating Video 11%

Everything 1%

Designing 10%

Teamwork 7%

Designing/Creating Website 1%

Teamwork 2%

Learning New Skills 5%

Designing Website 1%

Learning about the digital industry 7%

Completing Challenge 3%

Blank 5%

Fig 7. What was your favourite thing or the most interesting part of today (D-Day)?

Website Design 12%

Making Apps 15%

Making Games 8%

Social Media 1%

Career advice 1%

Marketing/Branding/Advertising 5%

Multimedia 10%

Web Dev./Coding 12%

Software Dev. 4%

Not Sure 3%

Planning/Research/Strategy 1%

Business/Management 2%

Design Tools 5%

Other 3%

Nothing 2%

UI 0%

All/Any 1%

Blanks 15%

Fig 8. After today (D-Day), what other digital activities would you like to learn about at school?


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Fig 9. Do you know where you can find more information about digital careers?

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Fig 10. Has today (D-Day) made you think more about a career in digital?


4.2 Appendix 2: Feedback Received

Hi Andrew

Its been a very educational day – Luke Higgins was very informative letting the students know all about his industry and the production process of creating a media product

The students were blown away by him and impressed by his success as he developed the advertising for the olympics as well as showing us a number of TV advertisements and websites he has created!

He has suggested us visiting their luxury offices to see how it all works and also suggested the students apply for apprenticeships there!

They have worked very well this afternoon they designed their own digital idea to benefit the community and will be presenting these ideas and evaluating the day shortly after 2:15pm

Thanks for all of your hard work organising todays event!

Charlotte

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We've got D-Day support from the Xfactor ;)

Now we all need to vote for him on Saturday! #teamkye!

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Thank you for all the organising – it’s been a very creative day – Alain and Angela were fantastic.

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Hi Andrew,

I would like to thank Fran Hoey who came in to our school today and delivered a fantastic session to our students. We started very small this year but would very much like to expand this next year to include year 10, 11, 12 and 13 have you set a date yet?

Rgds

David

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We had a fantastic day Andrew. Our partners, Netcel, were brilliant.

Many thanks for all your work in organising the event.

Jude

Mrs Judith Ryde

ICT & Business Team

Dr Challoner's Grammar School

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Hi Andrew / Helen,

The day went really well students engaged well and learnt from the experience. We have three entries for the programming competition and two for the multimedia we would like to submit. How do we submit them?

Regards

Jacqueline Suter

Teacher of ICT and Computing

Phone: 01325 461315

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Andrew, we had a great day so thank you for all of the resources and effort you have put in.


Are there any more instructions on how to return the entries or do we just post them off (in which case, who to?)

Thanks

Oliver Oakley

Wren Academy.

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Went really well. Did a lot of #BIMADday tweeting as requested.

Thanks for asking us to take part. Hope it works out really well for you and massive congratulations / respect for organising it.

PS. Avoided getting told off by the head master. He popped in and I thought for half a second we were in trouble. Result ;-)

Yours sincerely

Mike Hawkyard

Direct Number: 0044 1202 204 852

Main Number: 0044 1202 767 300

Mobile: 0044 7976 624855

Website: www.4T2.co.uk

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Hi Andrew

I just wanted to email you to say thank you for making this day happen. It was a great experience for the students and I look forward to doing it again next year. Oh and thanks for the picture, my students thought that was quite funny!

e3 were absolutely brilliant with our students as well, we have already discussed possibilities of work experience and visiting their headquarters. I hope that this will be the start of a great digital partnership. It is just brilliant being able to show students that there are careers out there beyond Weston-super-Mare!

Best wishes,

Adrian Esch

Teacher of ICT and Computing, Hans Price Academy


http://www.4t2.co.uk/

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Dear Ollie and Andrew

Can I just express my thanks to you for what happened today. I could not easily write before now as I have only just finished boarding duty.

You put a lot of effort into making resources and then getting an outstanding team of professionals in to work with our students and it would be rude for me to not thank you on behalf of the College and especially the students..

I have not had a chance to look at the work properly yet but

1. The mobile App Design seemed to originate from a series of excellent idea – the teamwork that I saw was exemplary/

2. The video task was a real opportunity for our multimedia students to use our first rate video equipment and learn Adobe Elements to boot!

3. The Java programming resulted in a PACMAN game being coded and gave two of our very quietest and modest students a chance to shine.

I will send you the work tomorrow – it is locked in my room at present.

The students enjoyed the work and were well motivated. I think this would not have happened so well had we just the resources – although they were extremely good. It was the link with the Digital professionals that really made those resources come to life.

Thank you and please continue this important work.

I will be in touch again soon

Thank you

Anthony

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Morning,

I would just like to extend a huge thanks and well done to both of you for yesterday. I am sure it was a huge amount of work to organise, Andrew and our students were thoroughly enthused by the day and one student was still talking to David about a route into a digital career even after the final bell had gone.

David, thank you for taking a day out from your regular work to come and assist us. Our students found your presentation hugely interesting and your input helped them immensely. The fact that they still want to come in during their lunchtime today to complete it speaks volumes about how interesting they found it.


It is always pretty hard for a rural school to find real world agencies in any industry who are willing to give their time to show the students what they do, so once again thank you both.

Regards,

Mike

Teacher of ICT and Computing

The Purbeck School,

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Hi Andrew, thank you for organising a great day yesterday. The students (mostly Y11 and Y12) really enjoyed it. Key points of the day:

1. The range of roles in digital was an eye opener for many girls2. The girls were really enthused by the creativity involved. They often had

preconceptions of working in IT related jobs as dull and mundane. 3. The mobile app challenge sparked great discussions and ideas that fed di-

rectly into their ICT curriculum with regards emerging tech such as aug-mented reality.

4. The hands-on help from the agency was valuable as it made them pay at-tention to the real issues and the detail in their ideas.

Thanks again,

Jamie Chadwick

Alderley Edge School for Girls

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Dear Andrew

Thank you so much for organising such an amazing event for our pupils. They loved it. They also really enjoyed finding out about Redweb and the wide variety of careers available in the digital industry. We would like to put our name down for next years event as soon as we can and I have already discussed with Phil how we as a school could improve the way we deliver the material. Space hoppers, choccies and brain/team building activities are all thoughts.

Hope you enjoy your day off.

Regards

Victoria

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We had a great day yesterday and I want to thank you and all involved for making it happen, seems it was nationally a success. I now have the complete desing to send of but nowhere to send them to. Can you help?

Thanks so much

Sue Cleaver

ICT Curriculum coordinator, Wallingford School

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Dear Andrew

Just a quick email to say what a great day we had yesterday at Bramdean School. I put some photos on our facebook page www.facebook.com/redrocketdesign and have sent some to Stephen at the Drum.

The project was good fun - hairy towards the end as we were running out of time - but very enjoyable.

Hope everyone else found it rewarding.

Best wishes

Jane

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Hi Andrew,

Colin from the School and I were also on BBC Radio Cambridge and we had a photographer into the school from the Cambridge Evening News.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00yvbgx - The interview was at 1 hour 20 if you are interested...

Richard

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Hiya

Can I ask how we are meant to submit the competition entries?

We have a few to send to you!

We had a brilliant day, despite our server having broken down the night before. The students were creative and resourceful


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00yvbgx

http://www.facebook.com/redrocketdesign

at finding solutions - and made the day work! It was great. Thank you again

Many thanks

Sally

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Ollie

On behalf of the Senior Management Team, I would like to add my thanks to you for the work you did here yesterday with our students. In a competitive world, it is vitally important that we seek out and provide opportunities for our students to add value to the work that they already undertake at the College. Your input was therefore greatly appreciated and I hope that we have opportunity again to welcome you to the College.

Walter Boyle

Deputy Principal

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Dear Andrew,

Our students thoroughly enjoyed the day yesterday, despite not having a link with someone from Industry.

I can't find any information about how to submit our entries. I have tried the website today to see if there were any updates but the website won't load (busy serverm, per-haps?)

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Jacquie

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What a great day - our boys at Rokeby thoroughly enjoyed themselves and got so much out of having Cat from Rabbit's expertise (she was bombarded with hundreds of questions!).

I will send on their work today but we have a filmed and edited an advert to accompany the students work - how do I send that in? Can I email it across?

Thanks again for organising,


Anna BowenHead of MediaRokeby School,Newham020 8534 8946

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Thanks for a great day it was awesome !

the creative excitement we overlooked the evaluation sheets – please could Send me a copy and I will endeavour get them done today!

Sorry to disturb your bima day off

Aran

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Hi Andrew, The student at school just need to put a few finishing touches onto their work, as we had a very hectic day yesterday and some details were left unfinished, Is there any particular deadline date for the submission of the work as the students would just like to tie up loose ends before sending the work out to yourselves.

Thanks

Mrs M Choudhury

2nd in Department, ICT

Sharples School- A Science Specialist College

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Hello Andrew,

Thank you from Torchbox for organising a fantastic workshop on a national scale. Both Jonny & myself were incredibly impressed with the yr 7 students at Wallingford school.

The teams (Mini agencies) were really enthusiastic about the day and produced brilliant, creative apps. Apps that we would be happy to have come up with!

I would be interested in giving feedback on the day and see how we can be involved in the future, hopefully see you at Thirstday on the 1st Nov.

Thanks again,

Sarah


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Hi Andrew

Just wanted to say that I'm amazed at the organisation of the day and to say a massive well done!

I had a great day and the kids were so receptive, certainly up for helping out again in the future. Though it certainly realised how demanding being a teacher is - it was like doing an all day pitch.

All the best

Lee

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Hi,

We had a brilliant day yesterday, with enthusiastic help from Laurent and Paciencia at Equator. The pupils were really enthused and came up with great ideas. However, I’m not going to be able to return the packs tomorrow. I am on holiday tomorrow for the weekend, and won’t be able to get back into school until Monday. I will send them then, and hope that’s OK.

Regards

Ann McVey

Eastwood High School

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Hi AndrewJust to say a BIG thank you to you and the team at BIMA. We had a great day here at St Paul's and Kay certainly inspired them to think about careers in digital media. She was great. It's obvious from their questionnaires that they got a lot out of the day and I know from speaking to them that they really enjoyed it. We regularly hold enrichment days and it was great to have an industry focus. Thank you once again.

I sent off our entries yesterday and Charlotte should have them by lunchtime today.

Kind regards

Karen


Mrs K. KeyHead of ICTSt Paul's School for Girls

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Hi Andrew

Huge thanks for a really engaging day -Kristal and Chris from Enjoy Digital were stars.

I’m running around today getting all the packs together from the teachers including the work they did on balsamiq. I won’t get the Multimedia video files until next week so I’ll submit those together – I accept this might mean that group can’t be considered for any prizes but for us the learning and experience are most important.

Have a good weekend,

Nick O'Keeffe

Business Networks Manager

DYCA

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Hi Andrew,

Thank you for organising a fantastic event, out students really enjoyed the experience. I will not be able to return the packs until Monday as I have not been in school, and today another member of the department is away and it is difficult to collate all the work. I hope this will be ok, as the students have done some fantastic work and I don't want them to miss out in anyway!

Can you just confirm this for me?

Many thanks,Nevita

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Hello,

just to say thankyou and that the pupils and myself greatly enjoyed the day and found it to be a fantastic experince! We were lucky enough to be linked with TBL and Rob worked with the pupils and inspired them in creating amazing projects. I am just sorting packaging the work and will send to you by monday at the latest. Thanks again and hopefully the same again next year!


Thanks,

Steve and all the pupils at TGGS

Stephen SmedleyICT Coordinator and Website Manager
