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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 ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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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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Government Has Urged The Government to Do More to Help Engineering and Science Firms
Jan 8, 2013The inventor of the Dyson vacuum cleaner, Sir James Dyson, has urged the government to do more to help engineering and science firms and focus less on the "glamour of web fads" coming out of Silicon Roundabout. Dyson believes that ...
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The London Hub Will Focus on Building Facebook Mobile and Platform Products
Dec 28, 2012Facebook opened an engineering centre in London today, its first outside the US. The London hub, launched by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, will focus on building Facebook mobile and platform products. "There are 7,000 ...
Tags: Facebook, London, engineering centre, mobile devices