CECE Web Map - United Kingdom Listing

Within the United Kingdom, there are different educational systems. While there are strong similarities between the systems in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the Scottish system is different. In England there are three unofficial strands in the curriculum, which were adopted from the recommendations of the royal society report: Computer Science (Informatics), Information Technology and Digital Literacy. Underpinning all of those three strands in the UK, there is Computational Thinking. In the UK, Digital Literacy means social and digital responsibility, kind of ethics, the ethos of using computers in addition to the European definition, which is kind of alike driving the computer and the functionality in the use of the computers.

Data Mode	Data Value	Explanation
Data Availability	N/A Report	Please select a nation for more details.
Informatics: First Contact	Primary Report	As with Digital Literacy, it is at age 5. This may be computing-without-computers activities, though; things like paper exercises to write a "getting up" flowchart, or running-around games to simulate network routing.
Informatics: Availability of Courses	N/A Report	Please select a region for more details.
Informatics: Curriculum Consistency	Country Report	All English government-funded schools have the same national curriculum. Fee-paying schools (attended by 7% of students) can do as they please. Wales is currently reviewing its IT curriculum, and I am less familiar with Northern Ireland and Scotland, I'm afraid (the other regions of the UK).
Informatics: Enrolment	N/A Report	Please select a region for more details.
Digital Literacy: First Contact	Primary Report	We now have a computing curriculum, which includes digital literacy, which starts from age 5 in England, which is the first year of required, government-provided schooling.
Digital Literacy: A Separate Subject?	Separate subject Report	Digital Literacy is said to be one of three strands of the official subject "Computing", which also includes the strands of Computer Science and IT (even from age 5)
Digital Literacy: Curriculum Consistency	Country Report	All English government-funded schools have the same national curriculum. Fee-paying schools (attended by 7% of students) can do as they please.
Digital Literacy: Enrolment	N/A Report	Please select a region for more details.
Teacher Training: Special Qualifications	Special qualifications Report	This is all in flux at the moment. Old programs for ICT teachers are being rapidly replacing or reworked to produce Computing teachers. It's too early to say how this will pan out. Teachers do usually take their teacher certification with an eye to a particular subject.
Teacher Training: Number of Subjects	N/A Report	Please select a region for more details.
Teacher Training: Entry Requirement	N/A Report	Please select a region for more details.
Teacher Training: In-Service Length	N/A Report	Please select a region for more details.
Teacher Training: Stand-alone Digital Literacy Curriculum	N/A Report	Please select a region for more details.
Teacher Training: Stand-alone Informatics Curriculum	N/A Report	Please select a region for more details.
Teacher Training: Typical Path Availability	N/A Report	Please select a region for more details.
Teacher Training: Professionals as Teachers	N/A Report	Please select a region for more details.
Teacher Training: Professional Experience	N/A Report	Please select a region for more details.
Teacher Training: Mathematics Teachers	N/A Report	Please select a region for more details.
Teacher Training: Physics Teachers	N/A Report	Please select a region for more details.
Teacher Training: Business Teachers	N/A Report	Please select a region for more details.
Teacher Training: Engineering Teachers	N/A Report	Please select a region for more details.
Teacher Training: Teachers from other Disciplines	N/A Report	Please select a region for more details.
Teacher Training: Security of Employment	N/A Report	Please select a region for more details.
Educational Policies	State Report
Learning Objectives	State Report