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Department for Culture, Media and Sport publishes eagerly awaited reply
Read More »UK Gov: Computer teaching in schools "needs reform"
The Government has admitted that teaching children about computers is seriously "in need of reform". In an official response to the Livingstone-Hope Next Gen report published nine months ago, a lengthy statement from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport concedes that interactive computer teaching in the UK is "insufficiently …
Read More »Govt plans ‘an attractive computer science offering’
No huge commitments made in official response, but UKIE claims 'the door has opened'
Read More »Skills Review response ‘delayed for good reason’
Hopes are high as Department for Education takes its time preparing statement
Read More »Prime Minister backs programming education reform
Progress for lobbyists calling for computer science in schools
Read More »UKIE to form developer group – Livingstone to lead
New group 'will help all development studios, including indie start-ups, grow and scale'
Read More »Livingstone’s Skills Review backed in Lords debate
'It is slightly ludicrous that we are teaching pupils to plug things into computers but not how to program them'
Read More »Playdemic sold back to UK amid RockYou cutbacks
Company changes hands again just ten months after acquisition
Read More »BBC Newsnight to feature Livingstone-Hope Skills Review
The games industry will get its chance to speak to the nation next week, with the BBC’s Newsnight programme scheduled to run a feature on the Livingstone-Hope Skills Review. The Department for Education is due to break its eight-month silence on the Skills Review paper, which launched in February this …
Read More »Skills Review to go national with BBC TV coverage
Newsnight to report on Livingstone paper ahead of Education Department's official response
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