Just before the end of last term, Nesta highlighted what many teachers have been saying for a long time: that most schools are just not ready to implement the change in the ICT national curriculum to computing with its much greater emphasis on computer science.
The Nesta survey suggested that “more than half of teachers are not confident about teaching the new curriculum”.
While there is a suggestion that there is less confidence among teachers in the primary phase, the survey still reinforces the widely held view, among many teachers and those in industry, that the challenge of such a monumental change has been grossly underestimated.
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