Intellect, UK trade body has called for reform to the ICT curriculum in schools
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 On 20 January 2011 Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education, announced a review of the primary and secondary National Curriculum in England.
In its response to the Department for Education review of the national curriculum Intellect, the trade body for the UK’s technology sector recommend that basic ICT skills, interactive and multimedia technology should be used across all lessons to encourage and develop better computer science skills and creativity.
Intellect wants the government to replace ICT with lessons that focus on higher computer science skills, and to embed the teaching of ICT across every other subject. Intellect’s John Hoggard, the education programme manager stated that the existing ICT curriculum only taught pupils a how to use certain software packages and that these were limited in number. He suggested that the basic ICT skills being generated by the education department aren’t meeting the needs of students or their potential employers. The take up in school of ICT courses has fallen too. It shows a 57% decline in numbers between 2005 and 2010. Employers have said that they need to spend time and money up-skilling their employees as a result of the ICT teaching.
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