Tories cut IT fund to pay for free schools
Minister looking for more cuts to fund flagship policy
View ArticleMicheal Gove says games are good for kids
Pob goes public with support for fragging kids
View ArticleEducation Minister Michael Gove Admits Video Games Can Be Educational
Education minister Michael Gove has told a gathering at the Royal Society last that playing video games can have some educational value.
View ArticleAMNews: Apple Wants 15m iPhones, Automattic Updates WordPress, Toshiba 3D...
Apple has apparently placed a mammoth order of 15 million units for the iPhone 5 as the countdown to the release of the handset in September continues. According to Monica Chen from Taipei-based news...
View ArticleMichael Gove May Face Probe over Private Email Usage
The Education Secretary in the UK government, Michael Gove, along with a number of his advisers have been subjected to a probe after evidence surfaced, suggesting that they were trying to hide...
View ArticleEverything Everywhere Launches First 4G Trial In The North
50 Cumbrian locals will test out the 1800MHz spectrum
View ArticleThe future of tech: "Facebook will be a dinosaur" predicts Rewired State's...
ITProPortal caught up with Rewired State's Emma Mulqueeny at Digital 2013 to discuss some of the key issues facing technology, including the industry's gender divide and the future of social apps.
View ArticleComputer programming to be taught to 5-year-olds under new curriculum
Children will be taught computer programming from their first year of primary school under the new national curriculum for five to 14 year olds published this week.
View ArticleBBC launches new IT initiative to boost coding in UK
Tony Hall, director general of the BBC, said he wants the initiative, which will launch in 2015, to "bring coding into every home, business and school in the UK."
View ArticleWorld's biggest edtech event Bett 2014 kicks off in London
Bett, the world's largest education technology event, has kicked off in at London's ExCeL Centre and runs from 22-25 January.
View ArticleMichael Gove at Bett: "Government regulation cannot keep pace with innovation"
Delivering a keynote to a packed house at Bett 2014, UK education secretary Michael Gove paid tribute to Britain's commitment to innovation and rather predictably praised recent government reforms.
View ArticleGovernment’s “Year of Code” campaign provides £500,000 to train teachers in...
Working towards a new computing curriculum this September, aimed at bringing real coding skills to the UK’s schoolchildren.
View ArticleUK Schools must take advantage of the cloud and high-speed broadband to succeed
A report commissioned by the Department for Education put forward six major ways that the UK education system must embrace technology in the future.
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