The education secretary Michael Gove has called for increased speed in adopting technology and be made part of future curriculums in order to improve current teaching methods.

The education secretary said that schools could take advantage of emerging new services such as massive open online courses (MOOCs) and 3D printers and the multiple companies which have already begun educational support programs, including Google and Salesforce.

Michael Grove said: “In our lifetimes, traditional industries, markets and workplaces have been totally transformed; new products, new technologies and new applications - like Instagram, Tumblr, Spotify and Snapchat - develop and become mainstream parts of our lives with breath-taking rapidity".