[Gllug] open source centric ICT in Schools from Sept 2012 ?

[John Hearns]

Karanbir,
there was a very perceptive article in the Guardian yesterday on the
same subject.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/09/computer-science-courses-digital-skills

UK companies being unable to recruit a decent quality of graduates.
Good comment from the head of vehicle dynamics at Mercedes.


I read the comments on that article on the train home last night -
including the one about graduates being unable to actually come in to
work 5 days a week and have an hour for lunch. I had an encounter with
just such a self-worthy little git in my last company.

On 11/01/2012, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> Just caught this : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16493929
>
> "The current programme of information and communications technology
> (ICT) study in England's schools will be scrapped from September, the
> education secretary will announce later.
>
> It will be replaced by an "open source" curriculum in computer science
> and programming designed with the help of universities and industry."
>
> Well worth skimming through the comments, some very bizarre ones in
> there. Including, unfortunately, a very distinct lack of understand
> about what open source is. What are the chances that the people involved
> in setting up the new curriculum suffer the same mindset ?
>
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