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11:39 30th March 2010
Britain faces the risk of falling behind in higher education if it doesn't do more to improve the standard of computing in the sector, according to the founder of Frontier Developments.
Speaking at the Westminster Education Forum Keynote Seminar ICT at school and in the home, David Braben said: "Since 2001 the number of applicants to computer science courses has dropped by 52 per cent - that is a staggering drop".
According to Mr Braben, the ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) GCSE was partly responsible for this, as "computer science teaching in schools…went away" after its introduction.
He noted that the drop in the numbers of computer science graduates "is a problem that's only happening in the UK" but added that it is possible for the country to again be a leader in computing, as it was in the 1980s.
Mr Braben said that children find the ICT GCSE boring because they are "very computer literate" by the time they reach GCSE age.
Written by Paul Davis
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