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Still time to apply for computer science teacher training scholarship application deadline 1 June
There is still time to submit an application for the computer science teacher training scholarship scheme being funded by the Department for Education and managed by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. The scheme was launched earlier this year to attract the next generation of computer science teachers.
DfE grant to CAS and BCS to create national infrastructure for computer science CPD in schools
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, plans to extend the Network of Teaching Excellence in Computer Science (NoE) to provide Continuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunities for 16,000 teachers in primary and secondary schools in England.
BCS Lovelace Lecture 2013 - Registration now open
Registration is now open for this year’s Lovelace lecture entitled ‘I Think, Therefore I Am’ (Is the mind computable?) which will be presented by Grady Booch on 27 June at the Institute of Physics.
The Turing at Glyndwr Website is now active!
Following on from the previous blog, our first set of fantastic students from St Richard Gwyn School, Flint, did more than make our little robot dance! While they didn’t manage to evoke the spirit of PSY and get it dancing Gangham style, they did manage to get the mini bot to do figures of 8, go round in a perfect circle (as opposed to the hexagon-esque shape some of them tried to get away with!) and all challenged each other to see who could complete the tasks set for them the quickest.
Using Raspberry Pi’s to increase engagement of pupils
Looking forward to getting our project underway this month, currently gathering all staff together who are interested in supporting it. We will soon be purchasing 30 Raspberry Pi’s and plan to host a series of events for local schools and colleges to support the development of Computer Science in the school curriculum, in line with the recent reports from the BCS and Royal Society. It is our goal to increase the engagement of pupils in computing and to support the teaching of staff with regard to programming.
Open access publishing
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One of the issues that we must all face in the near future is the move toward open access (OA) publication. The EPSRC (and other UK funding Councils) have stated that from next year all publicly funded research must be published in an OA form. It is possible that EU funded research will soon have the same requirement, and in the US research funded by NFS may have a similar requirement/restriction. It is even rumoured that the next REF (if there is one of course) may only count outputs (papers) that are available under open access.
Kitemarks for degrees
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Following the publication of the Wilson Review in early 2012 the notion of kitemarking degrees has been high on the political agenda, particularly for STEM subjects.
BCS Lovelace Lecture 2013
London