Policy
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.
