It has taken a huge amount of effort to get this far, but the government has been speaking with people who know what they are talking about. If you do not want UK kids to be given up as hopeless they have to be at least as good as others; we are already importing people from India, Asia, Brazil, and the rest of Europe and complaining that our kids are unemployed.Yes they do realise that current teachers are also generally poor at IT, and there is a consortium from the universities, the British Computer Society, and others trying to address the problems and help retrain the teachers.Friends of mine running a business took on a schoolboy for a 1 week work experience. In the first couple of hours he built a new server PC, he then installed a database running on Linux, checked that it was compatible with the much older version that the company was using, copied all the data to the new machine, wrote his own software to test that the system worked correctly, and by mid week the company was running on the new system. He was self taught after finding a Linux installation disk in a magazine 6 years before, ran his own company with about 23 servers in western Canada connected to the internet backbone, and did all his programming there as he could access them from anywhere. Try doing that using Microsoft.
Chris Bell ● 4843d