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Lack of Teacher Training Hampers UK Programming Education
An anonymous reader writes: The UK government recently introduced a new computer curriculum to the school system in order to get more kids into programming. Unfortunately, they're running into a serious problem: one-third of the secondary schools tasked with teaching these programs have not spent any money training their teachers on the requisite knowledge and technology. The government has provided £4.5 million for this training, and a number of schools have spent their share and more. But it's clearly not filtering down to every school, and that harms the children enrolled in these schools.
Most people cannot learn the required skills to be a professional Mathematician/Scientific Researcher. Most people who learn a foreign language at school never become fluent in that language. The purpose of teaching programming in school is not to create programmers but to understand what programming is.