Recent UK ICT education like "teaching children to send a telex or travel in zeppelin" says Gove

Charlee Gothard
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Previous ICT resources were "creaking into obsolescence" for years, says Education Minister

Michael Gove has described ICT education in the UK in recent years as "about as much use as teaching children to send a telex or travel in a zeppelin", in his keynote at the opening of the BETT IT ...

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