Is coding more important than learning languages or English literature?

A third say that digital skills are even more important for today’s children that studying English literature.
The findings are part of a new survey conducted by digital learning provider OpenClassrooms, which questioned more than 1,000 parents with children aged five to 18.

But despite parents’ support for coding they also deplore the negative influence of technology on their children.

Nine out of ten parents said they were concerned about the safety of their children online while 43 per cent reckoned their children spent more time on their devices than with them.

More than half of those questioned (54 per cent) worried that technological advances – particularly in automation and robotics – might lessen their children’s chances of future employment. This was their second most pressing concern after climate change.