Tech companies including Google, O2 and Raspberry Pi will support coding lessons in UK schools

Tech companies including Google and O2 will support a £3.6 million campaign to improve the teaching of computing skills in England’s primary schools. The Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, will announce the partnerships at the BETT educational technology show later today. In her speech, Morgan will say that schools should be better connected to technology firms and announce a series of projects linking schools, universities and businesses to strengthen the computing curriculum. The initiatives will include a university consortium, including Queen Mary University London and Hertford College, Oxford, which will collaborate with Google to produce training materials to encourage the development of…

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