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UK Govt to Invest GBP 3.6 mln in Teacher IT Training |
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www.telecompaper.com |
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Thursday, January 22, 2015 |
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ICT for MDGs
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
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Jan 27, 2015 |
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The UK government will invest GBP 3.6 million to pay for technology experts from companies such as Google and O2 to visit schools around the country to prepare primary school teachers for the new computing curriculum. The first batch of projects announced in June 2014 saw Microsoft, IBM and others offer training to over 43,000 teachers in the new curriculum’s first year. Education secretary Nicky Morgan has now announced five new projects that will see major technology companies provide experts in universities such as Oxford, UCL and Queen Mary University of London to provide the training.
The latest funding includes over GBP 2 million for the British Computer Society to set up a network of 400 ‘master teachers’ to train teachers in other schools and provide classroom resources. Another GBP 1.1 million will be provided for Computing at School to help train primary teachers through online resources and school workshops. Bursaries will be increased for people wanting to become computing teachers. Computing teacher scholarships of GBP 25,000 will be introduced to encourage top graduates to become teachers. These will be backed by Microsoft, Google, Facebook and IBM.
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UK Govt to Invest GBP 3.6 mln in Teacher IT Training The UK government will invest GBP 3.6 million to pay for technology experts from companies such as Google and O2 to visit schools around the country to prepare primary school teachers for the new computing curriculum The first batch of projects announced in June 2014 saw Microsoft IBM and others offer training to over 43,000 teachers in the new curriculum’s first year Education secretary Nicky Morgan has now announced five new projects that will see major technology companies provide experts in universities such as Oxford UCL and Queen Mary University of London to provide the training
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