October 19th, 2012

Facebook, Microsoft Helping U.K. Government Select And Train A New Generation Of Computer Science Teachers

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The U.K. government is trying to fix the problem of poor IT teaching in schools — flagged up as a problem by Google’s Schmidt last year — and today it’s announced measures to equip a new generation of computer science teachers with the skills to teach the underlying principles of computing, rather than run lessons in how to use Microsoft Word. → Read More