ICT: Education

(asked on 19th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to assess how emerging education technology can be used to prepare pupils for future digital workplaces.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 22nd December 2017

Ensuring that pupils have the digital and computing skills needed is a key priority of this Government. We are working with teachers, researchers and industry to where technology can support effective education and broader development of digital skills. This includes how technology can support the delivery of the computing curriculum which was introduced in 2014 to replace the old, and widely regarded as outdated, ICT curriculum.

We are investing £84 million new funding over the next five years to deliver a comprehensive programme to improve the teaching of computing and drive up participation in computer science.

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