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Truss gives BCS £2m to bridge teacher "Computing' gap

Truss gives BCS £2m to bridge teacher

BCS gets £2 million from DfE to create 16,000 'computing' teachers
The Government is giving the BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT) £2 million to help train teachers in English schools to fill the workforce skills gap opened up by a provisional Computing curriculum heavily skewed to computer science.

Announced by education minister Elizabeth Truss MP, the cash is £1m a year for two years to recruit 400 "master teachers" in computer science to help build the Network of Excellence run by the BCS Academy of Computing with support from its member organisation Computing at School.

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Teacher numbers fall but DfE confident on 'Computing'

Teacher numbers fall but DfE confident on 'Computing'

With a £1 million 'computing' training scheme in the wings, it looks like too little too late
The Department for Education (DfE) is confident that the teaching workforce in Eng...

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Pupil Premium starts to affect school spending

Pupil Premium starts to affect school spending

Think the Pupil Premium is a £1.25 billion hoard for ICT? You’d better sharpen up, writes George Cole
Mix with educational technology advocates too much and you could develop t...

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The Vital question for schools technology – CPD

The Vital question for schools technology – CPD

The DfE has cut funding for England's most ambitious CPD programme for ICT. Bob Harrison asks its director, Peter Twining, 'How vital is Vital'?

It hs to be either a particular...

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Why 'computing' for the digitally illiterate is dangerous

Why 'computing' for the digitally illiterate is dangerous

A curriculum based on a dichotomy between computer science and digital literacy is flawed. Peter Twining explains
The Computer Science lobby, not unreasonably, are focused on e...

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