By Natasha Lomas
Published: Friday 15 August 2008
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Name
John H Woods
Location
UK
Occupation
IT
Comment
ICT in secondary schools is pretty much 'secretarial skills' and, at that, pretty much MS specific - on the few occaisions that the PCs work properly.
My 10 year old is extremely frustrated that the computers are always breaking and wonders 'why don't they use Ubuntu like we do'. My 12 year old gets more relevant IT training doing level design on Timesplitters 2 on the PS2.
'A' levels shouldn't be teaching kids vocationally anyway: ICT should be - imho - about bits, bytes, gates, hex and basic programming skills: eductation is not training and trying to make it so produces substandard results in both.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha all the kids know the jobs are bein...
John Jackson
I suggest you look at the A-Level ICT course, you ...
Anonymous
Give the Training Quango's more money?
Doing IT...
Anonymous
ICT in secondary schools is pretty much 'secretari...
John H Woods
I 100% agree with last comment, we must replace IC...
Alistair King
You reap what you sow. All those people who were ...
Anonymous
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