schools

US State Sues Google For ‘Illegally Gathering Data On Children’

Federal lawsuit by US state of New Mexico accuses Google of illegally gathering students' data via G Suite for Education…

4 years ago

Computing In English Schools In Sharp Decline – Report

Schools in England are cutting back the hours teaching computing, and fewer pupils are achieving ICT qualifications

5 years ago

Girls In ICT Day: Breaking Into The Boy’s Club

Lucy Lee, IT support apprentice at Canon UK explains how she got into ICT and the struggles young girls face…

7 years ago

Does Virtual Reality Have A Place In The Classroom?

IN DEPTH: The short answer is 'yes.' The long answer? Well, that's a bit more complicated...

7 years ago

Dropbox CTO: Education Is Essential To Plugging Tech Skills Gap

INTERVIEW: Aditya Agarwal explains why computer science should be a core component of the education curriculum

7 years ago

HP And LEGO Target STEM Skills With New Partnership

LEGO joins initiative to boost STEM education in schools throughout the UK

7 years ago

Minecraft: Education Edition Launches 1 November

Schools will be able to access the building game for $5 per year, per user

8 years ago

BBC Micro Bit Delayed Again

Pocket-sized computer hopes to teach schoolchildren coding skills

8 years ago

HP Wants Students To Get Creative With Sprout Pro

IN PICTURES: New Sprout Pro targets schools and universities with scanning and 3D printing capabilities

8 years ago

Government Wants Schools To Monitor Pupil Web Use

Education secretary proposes new reforms introduces new scheme to prevent ‘radicalisation’ online

8 years ago

Fancy Making Contact With Little Green Men?

UK space organisations team up with Raspberry Pi offer kids the chance to send your computer code into space

9 years ago

Not Enough Teachers Will Know Code By September

Several private sector initiatives are trying to make up for the lack of teacher training

10 years ago

Microsoft To Prepare 160,000 Teachers For The New Curriculum

The Switched On Computing initiative offers instructions in areas including "computational thinking"

10 years ago

New National Curriculum To Teach Five Year Olds Computer Programming

Education Secretary Michael Gove to implement new computing curriciulum by September 2014

11 years ago

Nesta Slams £1.4bn School Spend On Tech

Innovation foundation calls for an overhaul in teaching methods

11 years ago

ICT Curriculum Scrapped By DfE

Removal of curriculum two years before new programme of study is greeted with mixed reaction

12 years ago

IT Life: Ruling The School

We chat to business analyst Matthew Martin about the challenges of running IT for Frances King School

12 years ago

First Raspberry Pi Systems Hit Leeds Schools

The first batch of Raspberry Pi machines make it to end users

12 years ago

BCS Wants 250 Schools For ICT Teaching Network

350 schools will be invited to share teaching practices and materials as part of wider ICT education reforms

12 years ago

Suffolk Schools Wired Up To High Speed Network

Schools, libraries and council buildings in Suffolk have been connected to a high speed network

12 years ago

Apple Reveals Education Textbook Push For iPad With iBooks 2

Apple has launched iBooks 2, signalling its ambition to reinvent the textbook experience for students

12 years ago

Royal Society Calls for Specialist ICT Teachers

New report makes recommendations to improve ICT teaching in the UK

12 years ago

Education Secretary To Overhaul ICT Curriculum

Michael Gove says current system of ICT teaching is harmful to the UK economy

12 years ago

Ofsted Report Says ICT Teaching Is Failing Pupils

ICT education is particu8larly bad in secondary schools, according to an Ofsted report

12 years ago

Scheme To Improve IT Teaching Gains Funding Boost

The Ministry of Education pledges £2.5m to improve standard of IT and computing teaching in schools

12 years ago

Schools Must Teach Data Privacy, Says ICO

Most children do not read the privacy policies of social networks, the Information Commissioner says

13 years ago

Scots Schools Impose Biometric Systems On Pupils

A Liberal Democrat is expressing his concern over fingerprint ID systems used in some Scottish schools

13 years ago