BETT: Gove to scrap ICT curriculum

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Experts hail 'vital and historic step towards creating a new approach to teaching IT in schools'

In a move that has been lauded by the IT industry, education secretary Michael Gove told delegates at the BETT conference in London today that the current ICT curriculum will be scrapped from Septe...

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