Google Raspberry Pi gift and IT EBacc 'diversion' from real education crisis, says SETUK

Charlee Gothard
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Year-long schools overhaul could be tech company conspiracy, suggests adviser to the government

Google's donation of 15,000 Raspberry Pi computers and last week's decision by Education Secretary Michael Gove to add computer science to the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) are a mere "diversion" f...

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