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 ...

After Michael Gove's speech at BETT last year I wrote my first ever Guardian Teacher Network article, entitled Is Gove washing his hands of ICT. Just over a year later, it is clear that Gove has ...

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 ...

There have been fresh calls for schools to dump the dull ICT lessons that are turning kids off IT and failing to create the type of IT-savvy employees that UK businesses need. Earlier this year, a ...

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 ...

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 ...