The education minister’s plan to sweep aside current ICT curriculum could leave void, warns academic Dr Peter Twining, senior lecturer at the Open University.

Teachers are using the education minister's proposal to reform the ICT curriculum as an excuse to stop all teaching of computing as it would no longer be assessed until a new curriculum is implemented, which could take over a year.

Twining argues that if the plan goes ahead we could be without a curriculum for 2 years, and that it would be preferential to keep the existing curriculum whilst working on the new one. He also added that it is not only the curriculum that needs reviewing, but the lack of qualified ICT teachers too.