October 26, 2012 at 5:56 am
Great news that the UK is putting up cash incentives to draw in CS teachers! This move addresses the biggest concern that I have for the CS10K project ? where are we going to get the teachers? What will motivate them to study CS? A cash reward would certainly help.
Isn?t it a little surprising that Facebook, Microsoft, and IBM are being asked to design the training for the new teachers? Why them? Because they have so much experience training teachers? Or teaching people about CS? They may do a wonderful job. It?s just not an obvious set of choices.
High-flying graduates are to be given a ?20,000 golden handshake to train as computer science teachers.
Ministers have asked Facebook, Microsoft and IBM to help design the training for the new teachers.
Education Secretary Michael Gove said current information and communications technology (ICT) teacher training courses would be axed from next year.
The move ?could not be more welcome or more necessary?, said Prof Steve Furber of the Royal Society.
via BBC News ? Computer science teachers offered cash incentive.
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