Hands up if you studied IT, ICT or IS at high school in the UK.
Keep your hand up if you found the experience rewarding, enjoyable or useful.
Finally keep your hand up if you regularly apply what you were taught in your day to day job as an IT professional.
At this point there is one guy in the entire country with his hand still raised and he’s the lucky dude who got a job programming a turtle to draw spirals on a big sheet of paper 
IT in UK schools sucks. In fact it sucks big time. Don’t take my word for it, the UK government’s Secretary for Education says so as well. In fact he refers to the ICT curriculum as “demotivating and dull” – ouch!
I think we can all agree that the current system of just teaching the next generation how to use applications they either a) already know how to use or b) have no interest in using anyway is incredibly limiting and is definitely hurting the UK’s ability to play a larger part in the digital world. Continue reading
