ICT to be replaced by Computer Science
The Education Secretary Michael Gove will announce at the BETT show (this week) that the current programme of Information Communication Technology (ICT) study will be scrapped in England’s Schools from September to be replaced by compulsory lessons in a more rigorous subject “Computer Science and Programming”.
Michael Gove will refer to the current ICT programme as “harmful and dull”. He will say that the new compulsory subject will create young people “able to work at the forefront of technological change”. "Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to use Word or Excel by bored teachers, we could have 11-year-olds able to write simple 2D computer animations," he will say.
An adviser to Michael Gove envisages a new curriculum that could have 16 years olds creating their own apps for smart devices and 18 year olds able to write their own simple programming language. |
