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ICT JC 2014

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  • 20-12-2013 2:57am
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    Shnail
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    Hi all just wondering with the new JC starting in 2014 and ICT becoming more part of the syllabus will this mean there is more jobs gonna available for IT graduates to work in secondary schools or will schools just give the classes to the teachers they have who have a bit of knowledge on computers.
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    whiteandlight
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    Shnail wrote: »
    Hi all just wondering with the new JC starting in 2014 and ICT becoming more part of the syllabus will this mean there is more jobs gonna available for IT graduates to work in secondary schools or will schools just give the classes to the teachers they have who have a bit of knowledge on computers.

    There really is no scope for hiring new teachers with the terrible pupil teacher ratio. I would say it is highly unlikely that any new teacher will be hired just to include ICT on the syllabus. Maybe hours will be generated for the odd teacher who is already in the school but not likely to be an outside hire just for JC ICT.
    Plus schools are not obliged to offer it.


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    seavill
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    Shnail wrote: »
    Hi all just wondering with the new JC starting in 2014 and ICT becoming more part of the syllabus will this mean there is more jobs gonna available for IT graduates to work in secondary schools or will schools just give the classes to the teachers they have who have a bit of knowledge on computers.

    Do you mean an it graduate qualified as a teacher or just an it graduate.

    We have 5 of 30 teaching some form of it currently 3 of which have done extra courses after their teaching degree for it.

    Plenty of people in my school and my previous school able for it without needing anyone new. If it's added at all


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    teacherhead
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    Ict in the new JC will not be a massive subject with huge demand. It will be a bit of ms office for most with an option for coding in some schools.

    Just because rurai thinks Chinese and programming will be popular doesn't make it so. We're still looking at 13 year olds choosing subjects.


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