There is concern that children are no longer being equipped with the necessary computer development skills needed to fuel a 21st century tech-based economy.
The UK Government is looking to industry to inspire school children into making technology of the future.
Click’s Mark Cieslak looks at why this could mean that the way computer science was taught in schools in the 1980s could be making a comeback.
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