O and A levels [was Re: [SC.LUG] Robotics]

[Jason Lucas]

Very interesting article, Richard. I'll bring the CS mag to the next
meeting - or I could copy out the letter and post it to the LUG
(although I'd probably need permission from the publishers to do that)

J.
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 16:08, Richard Smedley wrote:
> Jason Lucas wrote:
> 
> >BTW - A letter in this month's Computer Shopper suggested that computer
> >education in the UK at GCSE/A-level was 'abysmal'. Can anyone comment on
> >that?
> >  
> >
> 
> Unfortunately secondary IT ("ICT") education is hardly
> worthy of comment :-(
> 
> Things have changed little since I wrote:
> http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/05/Linux_For_Schools.pdf
> more than 3 years ago. People leave school with no idea of what a
> computer really is or can do - or even how to cope with anything
> that doesn't have the same WIMP interface upon which they
> learnt.
> 
> I think there is little hope in the short term for most schools, but
> in the end things have to change. If anyone would like to speed
> things along, please join AFFS' effort on this front:
> 
> http://www.affs.org.uk/education/index.html
> 
> Sorry to sound so depressed, but I covered some of this in an article
> for a government journal last week, and it left me feeling very down.
> If anyone would like to post sterling examples of how well IT is
> being taught at their local school, then please do (particularly if it
> involves Linux robots ;-)
> 
>  - Richard
> 
> /me retreats back to wind-blown allotment for solace
> 
> 
> 
> 
> btw can you bring the Computer Shopper t the meeting?
> 
> 
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> 
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