British Schoolchildren To Get Programming Lessons

judgecorp writes "The British Education Secretary Michael Gove has said that the school ICT curriculum will be scrapped and replaced with programming and real computer science. Britain's schoolchildren have had compulsory ICT (information and communications technology) lessons for some time, but they are hated by staff and pupils alike, amounting to little more than Power Point training, using the products rather than understanding the code. There is room for improvement — and the British-designed Raspberry Pi could be part of this, but can the new system break away from the old product-centric regime when it will apparently be sponsored by companies including Google and Microsoft?"

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Re:England, not Britain

[ledow]

If you cannot understand that the:

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

is different to:

Great Britain

which itself is composed of:

England, Scotland and Wales

then there are a vast number of ways to go wrong.

Unfortunately, most foreigners get them all confused all the time (especially annoying when they confuse the UK for the others - does "United Kingdom" not suggest something, in the same way that "United States" is made up on lots of states?). Every time they do this, I refer to Texas as a country and Seattle as a state. If they don't realise their error from there, walk away.

Don't even get me started on counties, either....