The DfE has started to gather advice from within the private ICT sector for the development of the ICT curriculum through a consultation of industry leaders.

The new curriculum is designed to provide the requisite skills to develop the UK IT industry, and replace the past outdated curriculum that failed to stimulate students or provide the skills that the industry is looking for.

The first draft of the curriculum details how it: “combines creativity with rigour: pupils apply underlying principles to understand real-world systems, and to create purposeful and usable artefacts”.