Mass-produced 3D printer, the Makerbot Digitizer, has gone on pre-order sale today, its $1,400 (£900) price tag making it an accessible early model for the home or office user. While it reportedly takes 12 minutes to successfully ...
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With A-level results appearing up and down the country, the JCQ (Joint Council for Qualifications) has released its reports on attainment, as well as numbers of pupils entering for examinations, with ICT once again falling outside the top ...
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The Department for Education's (DfE) new English National Curriculum framework is "too focused on the development side of computing", Joanna Poplawska of The Corporate IT Forum's Education and Skills Commission has told Computing. While ...
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One in 10 computers in secondary schools will be a tablet by the end of 2013, according to research carried out by the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA). It is estimated that there are now 141,000 tablets in UK secondary ...
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Technology firms including Facebook and Microsoft have welcomed government plans to provide funding for improving the teaching of computer science in schools. Education minister Elizabeth Truss announced £2m will be set aside to ...
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A new Department for Education (DfE) report entitled The National Curriculum in England Framework offers more details of the coalition's plans to improve the teaching of computing, but provides no formal backing for Education Secretary ...
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Google's donation of 15,000 Raspberry Pi computers and last week's decision by Education Secretary Michael Gove to add computer science to the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) are a mere "diversion" from the UK's real problems in IT education, ...
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The UK's education, training and technology sectors will be among the major areas of UK export growth over the next few years, claims business secretary Vince Cable - despite a forthcoming shortage of qualified computer scientists as fewer ...
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Esko has entered into an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with Epson to provide a Digital Front-End (DFE) for use with the Epson SurePress L-4033A as well as the L-4033AW inkjet digital label presses. According to Esko, the ...
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More than 120 students were awarded £200,000 in scholarships and awards this week, as the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) rewarded hard-working UK students that choose to study computer science and engineering ...
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Vint Cerf–the founding father of the internet–is backing the BCS's call for computer science to be included in the English Baccalaureate(EBacc). In 2015,the EBacc is set to replace the current GCSE examination system in five ...
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At Supercomputing 2012 (SC12) in Salt Lake City (12-15 November), Vitesse Semiconductor Corp of Camarillo, CA, USA (which designs ICs for carrier and enterprise networks) and Avago Technologies Ltd of San Jose, CA, USA and Singapore (a ...
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The Department for Education is cutting IT staff among 1,000 job losses to reduce total headcount by a quarter. The announcement comes as the government aims to shrink Whitehall to its smallest size since the Second World War under the ...
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The British Computing Society(BCS)has made the first draft of the reformed ICT curriculum available to the public. Available on the BCS website,the first draft has been unveiled to enable the BCS and the Royal Academy of ...
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The Department for Education(DfE)has announced scholarships to encourage graduates into teaching computer science. The British Computer Society(BCS)is managing the project for the DfE,with the department providing the funding alongside ...
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