Comments on: Make IT compulsory – get more start-ups. https://www.companypartners.com/blog/2011/09/01/make-it-compulsory-get-more-start-ups/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Bringing business partners together Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:45:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: David Redfern https://www.companypartners.com/blog/2011/09/01/make-it-compulsory-get-more-start-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-3243 David Redfern Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:24:24 +0000 http://www.companypartners.com/blog/?p=622#comment-3243 What a lot of old tosh!

We should be teaching core subjects within schools and IT ought to be used as a tool to rapidly get to where the kids need to be. There are only a small proportion of school leavers that go onto careers in IT, the rest use spreadsheets, word processors and presentation software to assist them in their everyday jobs; they don’t need to know what happens under the bonnet. And to continue the motoring analogy, it’s like insisting a learner driver undertake an apprenticeship as a mechanic while they learn to drive when all they want to do is get from A to B. If the kids decide they want to embark on a career in IT, then detailed education ought to begin, and I would argue that’s the job of a University. Too many idiotic subjects, including a compulsory GCSE in Religious Education (nothing more than a political move) crowd the education marketplace when science and the arts are side-lined for easier options.

]]> By: Adam https://www.companypartners.com/blog/2011/09/01/make-it-compulsory-get-more-start-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-2883 Adam Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:08:38 +0000 http://www.companypartners.com/blog/?p=622#comment-2883 I think you make a very good point. It is a common argument from scholars and professionals that their particular subject requires more attention and time in schools. I have always taken a post structuralist approach that within reason, many subjects and skills can be taught within other subject areas.
For example a philosophical  approach which would develop key analytical skills that are useful for business can be taught in a number of subjects. On the topic of the above post, business ideas can be taught in geography. However the one subject that does not fit this is computer programming,  and at a time when there is a brain drain from Europe and an identity crisis of what Britain’s role on the global market place is, perhaps it is  the one subject that requires educational  investment. 

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