{"id":10947,"date":"2017-11-10T13:05:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T12:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devopsonline.co.uk\/?p=10947"},"modified":"2017-11-10T13:09:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T12:09:23","slug":"royal-society-urges-government-increase-computer-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devopsnews.online\/royal-society-urges-government-increase-computer-education\/","title":{"rendered":"The Royal Society urges the government to increase computer education"},"content":{"rendered":"
A report from the Royal Society has found that more than 54% of England’s secondary schools did not offer GCSE computer science in 2015-16.<\/p>\n
The report has urged the government to increase computer education through buying IT materials, to ensure students can gain the full potential of new technologies.<\/p>\n
The report found the main issue was lack of skilled teachers.<\/p>\n
The Department for Education said more pupils have begun choosing the subject.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson said to the BBC:<\/em> “We want to ensure our future workforce has the skills we need to drive the future productivity and economy of this country and that is why the government made computing a compulsory part of the national curriculum.<\/p>\n “Computer science GCSE entries continue to rise more quickly than any other subject.<\/p>\n “We recently saw an increase in entries to Stem subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths for the English Baccalaureate) and the number of girls taking Stem subjects at A-levels has increased by over 17% since 2010.<\/p>\n “Since 2012, the department has pledged \u00a35million to the Network of Teaching Excellence in Computer Science programme, which has built a national network of nearly 400 computer science specialists schools.”<\/p>\n Written by Leah Alger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A report from the Royal Society finds that more than 54% of England’s secondary schools did not offer GCSE computer science in 2015-16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":10948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2301,1297,63,2299,2300],"yoast_head":"\n