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Computing Education in Steep Decline, Report Warns
Computing education in England is in "steep decline," according to a report by the University of Roehampton.
Despite the government recognizing the huge importance of computing education, "young people are now less likely to access any computing education than they were before computer science was introduced" by the government five years ago, says Peter Kemp, one of the authors of "The Roehampton Annual Computing Education Report."
The number of hours spent teaching computing or ICT in Key Stage 4 for 14-to-16 year-olds dropped by 47 percent over the period from 2012 to 2017, equating to 31,000 fewer hours taught per week, the report says.
The discouraging news comes despite the Department for Education pumping several million into training computing "master teachers" for the past three years, and now a further £84 million for a National Centre of Computing Education in a bid to boost uptake.
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