In January 2012, Mr Gove announced he was replacing the information and communications technology (ICT) curriculum in schools with a more challenging computer science curriculum, developed to meet the needs of technology firms.

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It's expected to be largely positive, although there is unlikely to be any definite commitment to put computer science on the curriculum.

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Never for one minute did I think that Michael Gove (the British Education Secretary) would make his historic speech in January saying that the current programme of study for ICT would be disapplied this September and replaced with a curriculum with computer science at its core.

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The answer, according to the firms and organisations calling for change, is to put proper computer science in the form of coding on the curriculum.

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In a statement, the Department for Education said it agreed with Microsoft and that was why the "out-dated ICT curriculum" was scrapped last year, with computer science now being taught in schools.

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Since 2001, they have been supposed to register with the authorities, whereupon the government is meant to help them expand their curriculum to include maths, science, English and computer studies.

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