Anonymous

Midlands

Tecnical Director

Is this at all surprising given that IT or as the education sector insist on call it ICT has been a "Sink" subject in schools for the last few years with the best Schools not even carrying it as a GCSE option (Because of it's lack of value). A Level ICT is a joke, giving very little grounding in the subject at all, and an ICT degree from most Universities carrying less value to employers than Media Studies or Surfing .

The problem seems to be that most IT education seems to be "Training" on whatever product is flavour of the month when the syllabus is agreed, which means that by the time the Student takes the course the technology wave has passed them by, and because they have no general IT education these courses do not produce people who are IT Literate, but experts on using applications that are rapidly becoming out dated.

(The reason ICT is a Sink subject is that passing the exam is easy and the course counts as 4 GCSE’s in the league tables so Schools encourage there less bright pupils to take it to improve their ratings, the fact that employers and Universities do not count this exam as 4 GCSE’s is pretty irrelevant to Head Masters chasing a good league table position)