Article by Jessica Sier, The Australian Financial Review
Perhaps thinking like a computer is more important than knowing how to program one.
Debate in education circles is raging about where computer science and technology studies fit in our national schooling system, and whether practical programming and coding skills are required to feed an increasingly hungry IT workforce.
A review of the national curriculum released by federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne earlier this month and has sparked a heated response.
The government announced earlier this month it will invest $12 million in boosting STEM subjects in Australia – science, technology, engineering and maths – which are severely lacking, according to the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute. However, as The Australian Financial Review commentator David Havyatt observed, over the national schooling system, $12 million works out to about $4 a head.
