Well, surprise, surprise. After hearing on a news program about the worldwide decline in schools teaching technology, and the parallel decline of students who want to go into tech, I decided to talk to Fran Villalba Segarra of Internxt to find out what he thought about this interesting and quite unbelievable piece of news.

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Articles we reference:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48188877
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/03/10/design-technology-gcse-axed-nearly-half-schools-survey-finds/
https://www.techuk.org/insights/news/item/15338-decline-in-study-of-computer-science-and-ict-by-gcse-students
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/05/30/college-enrollment-declines-continue
https://www.firetech.wa.edu.au/news-and-media/stemunited-launch/
https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/DATE/article/view/1683
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2019/08/children-s-love-for-stem-on-the-decline-iet-survey-finds/

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