Current ICT lessons will be scrapped from September and replaced by an "open source" curriculum in computer science and programming.

The Government will announce later today it's to scrap the current existing ICT (Information and Communications Technology) program in schools in England from the start of the new term in September.

“The ICT brings together the best of both worlds,” said Hart, who manages funding to the program as part of a university-affiliated research center, or UARC.

The program has a teacher training component to empower the teachers with skills to seamlessly use ICT tools in their subject expertise. In turn, the schools under the GFS Program serve as a teacher ...

ICT teachers at the BETT show for educational technology in London agreed the current curriculum is out of date. Others said they would need extra training to teach computer programming.

Information and communications technology (ICT) teachers say plans to shake up the curriculum in England are "exciting" but "challenging".