The government expects that the new ICT curriculum due to be implemented from September 2014 will be shorter and therefore more flexible and innovative. Yesterday, the Department for Education (DfE) ...

The trade body for the UK's technology sector, Intellect, has suggested the current ICT curriculum should be scrapped as it believes it is not providing sufficiently relevant training. Intellect said ...

There are plenty of tools around to help schools measure their pupils' ICT skills but therein lies a problem: assessment is not merely a question of verifying skills. There's more to determining a ...

Student interest in ICT finally seems to be growing with an increase of nearly 13% of students opting to take the exam at GCSE this year. Despite the rise, the government still plans to scrap the ...

The Department for Education (DfE) has decided to disapply ICT from the curriculum from September, following a public consultation. This has been a concern for stakeholders such as the Open University ...

ICT in England's schools is a "mess" and must be radically revamped to prepare pupils for the future, Michael Gove has said. Teachers and industry leaders describe the current curriculum as ...

A new ICT curriculum is on the cards for the UK, which could change this subject from one perceived as relatively dull and for boys only to one fit for the 21st century, creative, pervasive and ...

The government is to scrap the teaching of the GCSE ICT curriculum in schools this September, with plans to replace the subject with the “rigorous” teaching of computer science and programming ...