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The BBC Is Launching a New Initiative
Oct 11, 2013The BBC is launching a new initiative that aims to "bring digital technology and computer coding to even more homes, businesses and schools" over the coming years, in a bid to plug the UK's digital skills gap. Government and industry are ...
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3D Printer Has Gone on Pre-Order Sale Today for The Home or Office User
Aug 23, 2013Mass-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 ...
Tags: 3D Printing, 3D Printer
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The UK's GCSE Has Been Positive News for The IT Industry
Aug 23, 2013The UK's GCSE results came out this week and, on the whole, it's been positive news for the IT industry, with a 38 per cent year-on-year rise in students aged 14-16 taking the ICT exam - 73,847 exams sat this year compared to 53,197 last ...
Tags: Computer Products, Service
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DfE New English National Curriculum Framework Is Too Focused
Jul 10, 2013The 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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Government to Provide Funding for Improving The Teaching of Computer Science in Schools
Apr 26, 2013Technology 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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Big Data Is Important to The BBC in Helping to Understand Audience Behaviour
Feb 26, 2013Big data is important to the BBC in helping to understand audience behaviour and sentiment, BBC CTO John Linwood recently told Computing. "There's a piece of work going on now in understanding the relationship of a member of the audience ...
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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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Technology Visionaries Livingstone and Martha Fox Have Been Recognised in The New Year
Dec 29, 2012Technology visionaries Ian Livingstone and Martha Lane Fox have been recognised in the New Year Honours List this year. Livingstone,author of the'Fighting Fantasy'series of books,and also chairman of video games company Eidos,will be made ...
Tags: New Year Honours List, Tech visionaries, Hossein Yassaie, BBC
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Employers and Universities Need to Work Closely to Ensure Graduates with Necessary Skills
Dec 27, 2012Thousands of UK students are eagerly awaiting their GCSE and A-level results, with just weeks to go until they find out if they have made it through to the next step on their chosen career paths. But with unemployment on the rise, how ...
Tags: GCSE, cience, technology, engineering, UK education, IT industry
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Pearson Aims to Help Develop a Generation of Young Coders Through Its Application iCreate
Dec 26, 2012Education company Pearson aims to help develop a generation of young coders through its application iCreate. Currently a prototype, iCreate allows children between the ages of seven and 11 to learn code by controlling a character's ...
Tags: Computer Products, Young Coders, ICreate
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Challenge Launches Competition Aimed at Addressing a Critical Linux Security Skills Gap
Dec 26, 2012The UK national Cyber Security Challenge has launched another competition aimed at addressing a critical Linux security skills gap. The majority of internet infrastructure is based on Linux, but Linux is rarely taught in schools and Linux ...
Tags: Cyber Security Challenge, critical Linux, internet infrastructure
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Public Private Partnerships Are Key to UK's Cyber Security Strategy,Says Chloe Smith
Dec 24, 2012Public private partnerships are key to the UK’s cyber security strategy, says Cabinet Office minister for political and constitutional reform, Chloe Smith. “We are all in this together. The government recognizes that and ...
Tags: cyber security, constitutional reform, Govnet Cyber Security Summit 2012
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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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Many Students Return to School Today to Start The New E-Skills Computing Curriculum
Dec 17, 2012Many students return to school today to start the new e-skills computing curriculum. Speaking at the education show BETT, in January, education secretary Michael Gove said the current ICT curriculum is too off-putting, demotivating and ...
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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