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Government Must Prioritise Education to Feed Future of Toy Industry
Jun 13, 2017Design and technology needs funding and young talent needs encouragement for the future of many of UK's industries, says toy design firm, Fuse London. The future of the toy industry may hang in the balance, depending on the ...
Tags: Toy Industry, Toy
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Valve Announced an Intention to Enter The Education Sector
Jul 16, 2013Games developer Valve, which already runs the world's biggest and most successful software download platform, Steam, and is planning its own branded PC line, has announced an intention to enter the education sector. Launching a service ...
Tags: education, Service, Computer Products, education software
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Gove Launched a "Technical Baccalaureate" Designed to Represent a "Mark of Achievement"
Apr 24, 2013The government has launched a "technical baccalaureate" designed to represent a "mark of achievement" for school-leavers to show employers. Announced by education secretary Michael Gove and skills minister Matthew Hancock, the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Google Released Promotional Video for Its Widely-Anticipated Glass Project
Feb 25, 2013Google has released another promotional video for its widely-anticipated Glass project – the wearable device which takes the form of a pair of translucent spectacles that appear to enrich the user's experience of the world around ...
Tags: Google, Glass project, company news
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Next Gen Skills Announced The Appointment of a Next Gen Talent Development Co-Ordinator
Feb 17, 2013The Next Gen Skills campaign for the introduction of computer programming in schools has announced the appointment of a Next Gen Talent Development Co-ordinator to help implement the scheme's recommendations. Kim Blake, education liaison ...
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DfE Report Entitled The National Curriculum in England Framework
Feb 17, 2013A 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 ...
Tags: Department for Education, England Framework, computing
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Google and Secretary Michael Gove to Add Computer Science to The English Baccalaureate
Feb 5, 2013Google'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, ...
Tags: Google Raspberry, PI Gift, Computer Products
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Computer Science Is to Be Included as Part of The English Baccalaureate
Feb 1, 2013Computer science is to be included as part of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), a performance indicator that measures the percentage of students in a school who achieve grades A* to C at GCSE level in specific subjects. The EBacc ...
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IT Professionals and Teachers Expressed Concerns to Remove ICT From The School Curriculum
Dec 24, 2012IT professionals and teachers have expressed concerns over the government’s decision to remove ICT from the school curriculum for two years while a new computer science curriculum is devised. During the Reviewing the ICT Curriculum ...
Tags: IT, ICT, ICT curriculum, computer
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Marks & Spencer Continues Its Hunt for It Graduates for 2013
Dec 20, 2012Marks & Spencer is continuing its hunt for IT graduates as it plans to recruit a new software engineering team in London throughout 2013. As part of its existing Graduate Scheme and Business Placement Programme, half of the 50 strong team ...
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In 2015,The EBacc Is Set to Replace The Current GCSE Examination System in 5 Core Subjects
Dec 6, 2012Vint 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 ...
Tags: Vint Cerf, Computer Science, EBacc, Education