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Clare McDonald, business editor at Computer Weekly summarizes, Government-funded centre aimed at supporting computing teachers has reached more than 29,000 teachers and trained over 1,300 to deliver computing curriculum.
More than 1,300 teachers trained by National Centre for Computing Education
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The National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) has helped train more than 1,000 teachers to deliver the computing curriculum.
Since its launch two years ago, the NCCE has trained about 1,300 teachers to deliver GCSE computer science classes, and has provided resources to 29,500 teachers from 8,500 primary schools and 3,000 secondary schools.
Simon Peyton Jones, chairman of the NCCE, said: “The NCCE is playing an important part in re-imagining computing as a foundational school subject like maths and natural science, which all children should learn to equip them for life and work.
“Computer science is now an explicit part of the curriculum, alongside digital skills and competence. These changes represent a huge opportunity for our young people and our economy, and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic has shown these are needed more than ever.”...
Working with partners such as Arm, BT, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nationwide and Rolls-Royce, the NCCE’s goal is to change how computing is taught in schools by engaging and training teachers properly, in turn making sure more pupils study and understand computing as a subject.
Source: ComputerWeekly.com
