Cardiff University software students 'hands on' with business

The first 30 students at Wales' national software academy have started a degree course aimed at filling some of the hundreds of vacancies in the technology industry.

The three-year course in Applied Software Engineering from Cardiff University and based in Newport is the first of its kind in the UK.

It aims to make graduates "work ready".

As well as practical software engineering, students will learn how to market a product and run a business.

Aled Davies, 27, from near Cardigan, Ceredigion, was part of the one-year pilot for the new degree, which ran from last September.

He now works at the Alacrity Foundation in Newport and told BBC Wales economics correspondent Sarah Dickins the course was more practical than the computer degree he had done.