The search giant has recently written a cheque to provide British schools over 15,000 free microcomputers. The company’s chairman Eric Schmidt and Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton explained that the move should help raise a new generation of computer scientists and encourage kids to take up coding.
Google has said before that the schools of the United Kingdom were undermining the IT industry by rejecting to produce students who could create technology. Eric Schmidt is worried that current information and communications technology teaching is insufficient preparation for future jobs in technology.
The partnership and the initiative were announced at Chesterton Community College in Cambridge, where kids were given a coding lesson by Eric Schmidt and Eben Upton. Raspberry Pi co-founder hoped that his company’s cooperation with Google will become a significant moment in the development of computing education in the United Kingdom.
Upton believed it would be possible to turn around the constant decline in the numbers and skill sets of students applying to read computer science at university. Within the last decade, the numbers of people studying computer science in the country decreased by 23% at undergraduate level.
Eric Schmidt, when announcing Google’s Raspberry Pi giveaway, said that the UK’s innovators and entrepreneurs have changed the world and now the company should inspire the next generation of computer genius. Google hoped that its donation would go some way towards that. In the meanwhile, Google is also sponsoring ICT teacher training through a scheme in conjunction with the Teach First charity.
Google has said before that the schools of the United Kingdom were undermining the IT industry by rejecting to produce students who could create technology. Eric Schmidt is worried that current information and communications technology teaching is insufficient preparation for future jobs in technology.
The partnership and the initiative were announced at Chesterton Community College in Cambridge, where kids were given a coding lesson by Eric Schmidt and Eben Upton. Raspberry Pi co-founder hoped that his company’s cooperation with Google will become a significant moment in the development of computing education in the United Kingdom.
Upton believed it would be possible to turn around the constant decline in the numbers and skill sets of students applying to read computer science at university. Within the last decade, the numbers of people studying computer science in the country decreased by 23% at undergraduate level.
Eric Schmidt, when announcing Google’s Raspberry Pi giveaway, said that the UK’s innovators and entrepreneurs have changed the world and now the company should inspire the next generation of computer genius. Google hoped that its donation would go some way towards that. In the meanwhile, Google is also sponsoring ICT teacher training through a scheme in conjunction with the Teach First charity.
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