Education: glad to be a geek
Inside the Enterprise: the Government is right to look at ICT education in the UK. But any reforms need businesses on board – and a change in attitudes towards IT professionals.

The state of IT education in the UK has been a concern to business and above all to the IT industry for a number of years. So Balancing the needs of general IT skills, and the need for an academic pathway to computer science, is no easy task.
The problem, according to the Next Gen report, put together by the UK's computer games and visual effects industry, is that ICT courses in schools increasingly seem to focus on "computer skills" rather than developing a fundamental understanding of computer science.
Those skills are vitally important in a modern economy. But university computer science departments complain that applicants for undergraduate degrees have too little understanding or experience of how computers work, or how a software application is written. But they can turn out a very impressive PowerPoint.
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