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\nInterview with Professor Steve Furber FRS, chair of the Royal Society's new report 'Shut down or Restart? The way forward for Computing in UK schools'. The report comes at the launch of the Department of Education's consultation on plans...\nInterview with Professor Steve Furber FRS, chair of the Royal Society's new report 'Shut down or Restart? The way forward for Computing in UK schools'. The report comes at the launch of the Department of Education's consultation on plans to remove the statutory programme of study in ICT, whilst keeping ICT a mandatory part of the National Curriculum at all levels. The Royal Society's report recommends radically overhauling ICT in the English National Curriculum, replacing it with a programme of digital literacy for all from age 5 to 14, alongside opportunities for all pupils to experience the creative side of Computer Science from primary school age onwards. From the age of 14 students should have an entitlement to study a pair of GCSEs, similar in structure to English Language and English Literature in which Computer Science is the language element (how computers work) and Information Technology is the application element (how we use them). The case is made for the need to increase numbers of specialist teachers and to make the changes to the National Curriculum, both in terms of the economic benefits to the UK of a more digitally literate population (it is currently estimated that 15% of the population are digitally excluded) and of a workforce with more sophisticated Computer Science and Information Technology skills, and in terms of the more intrinsic, educational benefits of these skills, such as wider and safer participation in a modern society that is increasingly online and opportunities to be a creator of technology rather than just a user of it.\n
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