Google partnership with Teach First to boost teaching of computer science

Google has announced a new partnership with Teach First to support the training of over 100 Teach First ICT and science teachers

Google's contribution will support Teach First's training of 102 teachers, 34 for each year of the partnership. Over the three years, Google will support 61 ICT and 41 science teachers to work in schools across the country, with the first 34 entering classrooms in September. To ensure that the ICT teachers, and their pupils, have access to the latest cutting-edge technology, Google will also provide each teacher with a bursary to fund the purchase of innovative teaching aides to inspire their classes.

Google's Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt, said money would also be provided to buy "teaching aids, such as Raspberry Pi's or Arduino starter kits". Mr Schmidt had previously criticised the country's ICT curriculum. He had said the UK was "throwing away [its] great computing heritage" by focusing on using software rather than how it was made