The current computing curriculum is so focused on programming skills that other essential digital skills are left by the wayside, according to a report by the Subject Choice, Attainment and ...

Cast your mind back to January 2012. In one of his many overhauls, education secretary, Michael Gove, announced his attention to scrap the ICT curriculum in favour of computing. The idea behind it? To ...

It’s like Shakespeare to me. Child wide code, ollyy via Shutterstock Ask a parent what a school should teach and they’ll tell you, “When my child leaves school, I want them to be able to understand ...

How smooth will the curriculum's introduction be come September? From September, schools will be teaching basic coding for five-year-olds, while secondary school students will be required to study ...

RIT’s digital humanities and social sciences program has opted for a new name: humanities, computing, and design (HCD). The new name more accurately reflects the skillset graduates leave with, and it ...

Computing is an important subject, but it is only one of many that schools have to teach, and few would argue that it is more important than English, maths, or science. But as a high-profile debate ...