Alexander Simpkin

Bath UK

BtoB IT Direct Marketing Consultant

My son wanted to do an IT A level but found it so badly taught, so unrelated to his experience and so uninspiring that he gave it up. Teenage courses should be built around the interests teenagers have and so be comprised of how to build a PC, familiarisation with all the different comms channels, software capabilities for the user and a touch of programming and language experience in Java & MS (despite language changing/developing so frequently). The trouble is, there is noone around to teach that breadth, so the only answer seems to be to educate through work study placements and/or apprenticeships. However, I don't envy the people who might be put in place to organise that effort, particularly those who have to link with the exam boards who appear to have absolutely no idea what they're doing whatsoever.