They raised concerns about a lack of promotion of science and technology subjects at school, leading to a low uptake of computer science and technology courses by university students.

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About 30% of the 1998 graduating class of the famed Indian Institute of Technology--and a staggering 80% of the graduates in computer science--headed for graduate schools or jobs in the United States.

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In October, a panel of technology experts, including representatives of Google and Microsoft, called for the inclusion of computer science in the English Baccalaureate.

BBC: Computer science part of English Baccalaureate

Mr May is now a professor of computer science at Bristol University and chief technology officer at Xmos.

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Other schools, like Carnegie Mellon, do a breakdown of salaries for various departments including computer science and technology.

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After earning an undergraduate and a masters degree in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Maeda headed to art school in Japan at Tsukuba University Institute of Art and Design, obtaining a PhD in graphic design.

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Today, Katz works at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is the principal research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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Originally pioneered by the Boston Museum of Science and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the clubhouse model encourages participants to be creative with technology, whether they are making computer-generated art, developing Web pages or designing animations, according to Miguel Salinas, a spokesman for Intel.

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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.

BBC: Computer science part of English Baccalaureate