How to get into computer science

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David Hunt, PGCE Computer Science Subject Leader at the University of Worcester, explains how to switch career to being a computer science teacher

Computer science is now a core subject in schools and there is a huge demand for specialist teachers to deliver the new curriculum. The government changed the curriculum in September 2014, as pupil...

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