On 05/03/12 10:10, jgharston wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
The stumbling block there however would seem to be how to get the
teachers up to speed.

Employ some computing science teachers instead of typing instructors.

There are some people who went from the software industry into teaching
but there aren't enough of them. There are far more teachers who have
been handed the brown and smelly end of the stick. Pretty much without
exception they would like to teach something more exciting than how to
format a paragraph in Word. But we aren't suddenly going to hire another
20,000 experienced IT professionals as teachers even if there were that
many able and willing to do the job.

So we have the situation that we have.


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Bernard Peek