A curriculum framework for computer science and information technology

Published: March 1, 2012, 8 a.m.

At BETT 2012, Michael Gove announced that schools will no longer be required to follow the National Curriculum Programme of Study for ICT, although ICT will remain compulsory right up to the end of Key Stage 4. This announcement leaves a vacuum that begs the following question: if schools and other learning providers are not going to follow the existing curriculum, what should they follow? This document lays out a framework for the answer to that question.