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The government have asked facaebook, microsoft and ibm to help develop the new computer science curriculum. e the Daily mail article seems to suggest there is no mention of raspberry pi in the plans, sc schools seem to be free to teach what they want, also look on bbc site for info on the news report on the plan by michel gove who seems to think Tim berners lee invented the internet rather than the world wide web. paul 09:35, Tom Brough wrote: >> http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=21191 >> >> >> While I welcome the UK governments shift from teaching narrow ICT skills >> to teaching Computer Science at secondary level (well its a start) and >> the cash injection they have put aside for it . Did they have to go and >> talk to Microsoft about it? >> >> Is it just my celebrated paranoia or is this like the fenderation asking >> the borg to train its star fleet cadets? > As some of you know, despite being on the DC LUG (you're a friendly > knowledgeable bunch so why not? :)) I live in South Wales. My immediate > reaction to this is that it will cceeate a two tier system in the UK. > AFAIK teachers who train in England cannot teach in Wales and vice versa > (if this is wrong I'm happy to be corrected). Therefore, unless the > Welsh Assembly also offer the £20K bounty to ICT teacher trainees (not > currently the case when I spoke to the Programme Director for PGCEs at a > local university last week) there will be an immediate exodus to > England. That in turn will lead to an increase in ICT teachers in > England and a decrease in Wales to the point where Welsh ICT will become > the *blank* step-child of English IT. > > Julian > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq