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Bill Mitchell

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BCS Academy Founding Partners

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CAS and BCS are collaborative partners

That’s official: CAS has its own Board within BCS governance

– CAS is officially recognised and funded as part of the core mission in our Royal Charter to advance computing (no other group has this status)

– CAS is the principal group within BCS that influences education policy for computing in school

– CAS co-author BCS responses to consultations on computing education in school

– CAS have a seat on the BCS Academy of Computing Board

Bottom line: CAS is the group BCS listens to more than any other on all schools computing education issues

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Royal Society Report into State of Computing Education in School

24 organisations on Advisory Group, including Royal Academy of Engineering(Simon Peyton-Jones, Simon Humphreys, Bill Mitchell members of Group a total of 6 members of BCS Academy Board)

Stakeholder meetings

•Glasgow meeting, 22 March 2011 (Teachers)

•Manchester meeting, 18 March 2011 (Teachers)

•Leeds meeting, 24 March 2011 (Higher Education)

•London meeting, 28 March 2011 (Headteachers)

•London meeting, 31 March 2011 (teachers)

Computing in School Study

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National Curriculum review

•BCS with CAS submitted response to NC review

• June 6th DfE for meeting on NC review

– CAS+BCS

- Simon Peyton-Jones, Simon Humphreys, Bill Mitchell

– DfE:

- Marc Cavey, head of a DfE policy unit

- Aileen Clement, leading the NC Review work on ICT and D&T

- Ian Brydon, STEM policy team, and lead on ICT in the national curriculum

– general tenor of the Review is to reduce the scope of the National Curriculum

– we made case Computer Science is a proper, rigorous, knowledge-based subject discipline

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E4E, Engineering for Education

E4E represents the collective views of

•36 Professional Engineering Institutions, including BCS

•Engineering Council, EngineeringUK

•the Royal Academy of Engineering

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E4E National Curriculum review:

Every school pupil should encounter Computing because:

•General scientific, engineering, mathematical and business principles, concepts and methods can be encoded in formal languages that a human can understand and a digital computer can execute automatically

•The rigorous design and automation of different kinds of machine executable languages is unique to Computing; in particular designing and building languages capable of describing elegant, efficient solutions to hard real-world problems that affect our societal wellbeing as well as our future economic prosperity

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Letter from BCS to Michael Gove

• Mr Matt Brittin, Managing Director UK & Ireland Operations Google UK

• Dr Andrew Herbert OBE FREng, Chairman Microsoft Research EMEA

• Mr John Higgins CBE, Director General Intellect

• Dr Hermann Hauser Hon-CBE FREng (appointed by the Prime Minister to the Council for Science and Technology)

• Mr Andy Mulholland, Corporate Vice President & Global Chief Technology Officer Capgemini Group

• Mr David Docherty, Chief Executive of the Council For Industry and Higher Education, and Chairman of the Digital Television Group

• Mr Ian Livingstone OBE, Life President Eidos and Chair Computer Games Skills Council

• Mr Keith Williams FBCS, Managing Director Altran Praxis, Global Executive Director - Embedded & Critical Systems Altran

• Mr Alex Hope, Managing Director Double Negative, Board Director of the UK Screen Association (Double Negative won the 2011 Oscar for best Visual Effects)

• Mr John Lazar, Chairman Metaswitch (four times winner of the Queen's Award for Enterprise, including the Queen’s Award for Technology Innovation in 2010)

• Mr Hasan Bakhshi, Director Creative Industries National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts

• Mr David Clarke MBE FBCS, Chief Executive BCS

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NESTA

•Livingstone-Hope Skills Review for UK’s Video Games and Visual Effects Industries – bring Computer Science into the National Curriculum as an essential

discipline – include Computer Science in the English Baccalaureate

Commissioned by Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries who also publically endorsed the report

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David Willetts Minister of State for Universities

BCS Academy, Microsoft Research, CPHC and

UKCRC met with David Willetts, to discuss

University funding for Computer Science degree

courses in February 2011

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UK ICT Pioneers Competition with EPSRC

Innovation for Sustainability

•Jens Enzo Nyby Christensen, University of Cambridge: Acoustic Pulse Recognition (APR)