BCS’ Bill Mitchell says England’s new computing curriculum is ‘transformational’ but only with the right support for teachers Children across England have been back at school for a few weeks now, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The highly anticipated launch of the new computing curriculum in the UK is finally upon us, but did schools have enough time to prepare and were they offered enough support? From September 2014, the ...

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 ...

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 ...