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18 Oct Fostering informatics education German

Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW)
2014
Information and communications technology (ICT) may be viewed as the key technology of the 21st century. According to a report published by the Technische Gesellschaft Zürich, over 80% of current jobs in Switzerland require more or less thorough knowledge of ICT. Healthcare, finance, transportation, the machine industry, chemistry – i.e. all the technology-based professions – would by now be inconceivable without ICT. It would therefore seem logical for informatics to also play a significant role in schools. Yet this is not the case: ICT education is close to non-existent in Swiss schools. With the exception of the canton of Solothurn, at the level of compulsory education there are few content-related directives and even fewer obligations to provide classes in media education and informatics. At gymnasium level, informatics is only offered as an elective course. Even the “Lehrplan 21” (the planned common curriculum for compulsory education in German-speaking cantons) involves no major changes: in its structure, informatics only appears in a subsection. The term “informatics education” covers the academic topics linked to computers: informatics, computer technology, ICT applications and others. This terminology, which originated in Germany, allows for a comprehensive view of relevant educational contents relating to ICT and for the formulation of coherent and level-appropriate educational concepts. Informatics education aims not only to train pupils as users but to turn them into veritable agents.
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18 Oct Computing Qualifications included in the 2014 Key Stage 4 Performance Tables: a guide for schools

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2012
This guide, produced by the Royal Academy of Engineering in association with in association with the BCS Academy of Computing, the Computing at School working group (CAS) and Next Gen Skills is designed to help schools make sense of the sometimes confusing landscape of computing qualifications.
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18 Oct Enhancing Engineering Higher Education

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2012
Outputs of the national HE STEM programme - The National HE STEM programme (2009-12) took place against a backdrop of significant change in the higher education systems in England and Wales. Tuition fees, arrangements for student finance and control of student numbers all changed in a move to put the student at the centre of higher education.
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18 Oct Young researchers futures meeting: Neural engineering

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2012
Abstracts from a three-day conference organised by the Institute of Digital Healthcare and the Royal Academy of Engineering Panel for Biomedical Engineering.
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18 Oct Jobs and growth: the importance of engineering skills to the UK economy

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2012
Final report of the econometrics of engineering skills project. Examining the link between STEM education, training and qualifications and economic growth.
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18 Oct Engineers for Africa: Identifying engineering capacity needs in Sub Saharan Africa

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2012
This report identifies engineering Introduction capacity needs, in terms of the size and skills base of the work force.
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18 Oct Skills for the nation: engineering undergraduates in the UK

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2013
This report provides a mapping of the complex landscape of undergraduate engineering education in the UK and provides a sense of how it has been changing over time.
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