The National Centre for Computing Education is a government-funded initiative, offering teacher training and resources for computer science. The National Centre is delivered by a consortium of STEM Learning,

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and

British Computer Society Sir Maurice Wilkes served as the first President of BCS in 1957 BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, known as the British Computer Society until 2009, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in infor ...

(BCS).

Function

The National Centre for Computing Education provides training in computing education for primary and secondary schools and colleges, including bursary-funded face-to-face courses around England, and free online courses, delivered through

FutureLearn FutureLearn is a British digital education platform founded in December 2012. The company is jointly owned by The Open University and SEEK Ltd. It is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)ExpertTrack microcredential and Degree learning platform ...

. It also offers a repository of teaching resources for computing through its website
teachcomputing.org
The NCCE programme is organised around a network of school-based Computing Hubs, geographically distributed around the country. These Hubs ensure that the programme is school-led and reflects the needs of teachers on the ground.

History

The centre was set up following the January 2016 government report ''Digital Skills for the UK Economy'' which highlighted the digital skills gap in the UK economy, produced by the

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(BIS), which looked at research carried out by the

UK Commission for Employment and Skills The UK Commission for Employment and Skills was a non-departmental public body that provided advice on skills and employment policy to the UK Government and the Devolved Administrations. The UK Commission for Employment and Skills closed in Ma ...

(UKCES), which itself closed in 2017. Funding of £84m was announced in the

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to upskill around 8000 computer science teachers. Support would come from the

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and

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online course from the OU). The centre was created in November 2018 with £84m of government funding.

Chair

Simon Peyton Jones Simon Peyton Jones (born 18 January 1958) is a British computer scientist who researches the implementation and applications of functional programming languages, particularly lazy functional programming. Education Peyton Jones graduated fr ...

FRS, of

Microsoft Research Microsoft Research (MSR) is the research subsidiary of Microsoft. It was created in 1991 by Richard Rashid, Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold with the intent to advance state-of-the-art computing and solve difficult world problems through technologi ...

, was appointed as the organisation's chairman in March 2019. It has been created by

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at the

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, the BCS (

) and the

. It is funded by the

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. The

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will also provide assistance.

Network of Computing Hubs

North East England

Cardinal Hume Catholic School Cardinal Hume Catholic School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in the Beacon Lough area of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. It is named after Basil Cardinal Hume, a former President of the Catholic Bishops' Confer ...

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Carmel College, Darlington Carmel College (formerly Carmel RC College) is a secondary school on ''The Headlands'' in Hummersknott, Darlington, England. It also has a sixth form, Carmel College Sixth Form admitting about 150 students each year. Following an OFSTED inspec ...

, with

Carmel College Sixth Form Carmel College Sixth Form is a sixth form college on ''The Headlands'' in Hummersknott, Darlington, England. It is a post-16 extension of Carmel College, A Catholic Academy of which the college is attached to. History In 2023 the college clos ...

Kings Priory School Kings Priory School is a mixed all-through school and sixth form located in Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear, England. The current principal is Mr Philip Sanderson. The school has a Christian foundation as the largest member of the Woodard Corporation ...

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in Tyne and Wear

North West England

* Bishop Rawstorne Church of England Academy,

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in Lancashire *

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Priestley College Priestley Sixth Form and Community College is a sixth form college in the Wilderspool district of Warrington, Cheshire, England. It also offers adult courses and professional training on another site, and is an associate college of the Universit ...

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Yorkshire and the Humber

* All Saints Roman Catholic School, York,

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Bingley Grammar School Bingley Grammar School (BGS) is a Voluntary aided school for students from the ages of 11–18 and is located on the outskirts of Bingley, West Yorkshire, England. Bingley Grammar School was a specialist school for Business & Enterprise from ...

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Harrogate Grammar School Harrogate Grammar School is a co-educational academy school and sixth form in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. It has around 1,900 pupils in the main school. A 2022 Ofsted inspection rated the school as 'Outstanding' in all five areas of ...

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East Midlands

Beauchamp College The Beauchamp College ( ) is a coeducational secondary school and further education community college, in Oadby, a town on the outskirts of Leicester, England. It is situated on the southern edge of the built-up area of Oadby on the same campu ...

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West Midlands

Bishop Challoner Catholic College Bishop Challoner Catholic College is a Roman Catholic secondary school in the Kings Heath area of Birmingham, England. The school has a roll of 1,152 students, including 212 sixth form students. More than the national average are entitled to fre ...

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The Chase School The Chase School is a secondary school (ages 11–18) in Malvern, Worcestershire, England. The school opened as a Secondary Modern in 1953 under headteacher Mr Garth. It was officially opened by Lord Cobham on 26 March 1955. The Chase became a ...

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City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College The City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College is a mixed sixth form college on Leek Road, Stoke-on-Trent. It opened its new building on Leek Road in September 2010 having previously been located on Victoria Road, Fenton. The college is also ...

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East of England

Chesterton Community College Chesterton Community College is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Chesterton, Cambridge, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It was established in 1935 as two separate schools for boys and girls, which mer ...

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Dereham Neatherd High School Dereham Neatherd High School is a high school situated in Dereham, Norfolk, England. It is a co-educational comprehensive school, for ages 11–16. History The school was formerly the Dereham High School for Girls, opening in 1912. The first h ...

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Saffron Walden County High School Saffron Walden County High School (SWCHS) is a coeducational academy school for ages 11–18 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England. The school is also an accredited training school, and was formerly a specialist Technology College. The current exec ...

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Sandringham School Sandringham School is a secondary school with academy status in Marshalswick, St Albans, Hertfordshire. It was established in 1988 following a merger of two local schools, Marshalswick School and Wheathampstead School. It occupies the former Ma ...

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* St Clement Danes School,

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West Suffolk College West Suffolk College is a Further Education college in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. The college delivers a range of courses, including vocational and technical courses, apprenticeships, and an array of higher-apprenticeships and bachelor's degree ...

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Westcliff High School for Girls Westcliff High School for Girls, also known by its initialism WHSG, is a selective grammar school and academy for girls in Southend-on-Sea, Essex and surrounding areas. It teaches students from the age of 11 through to 18 years old, and admission ...

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in Essex

Greater London

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South East England

The Mathematics and Science Learning Centre at the

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Dartford Grammar School Dartford Grammar School is a selective secondary (ages 11–19) foundation school for boys in Dartford, Kent, England, which admits girls to its sixth form (ages 16–18). All of the students joining the school are considered to be from the top ...

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* Denbigh School,

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* Maidstone Grammar School for Girls, Kent *

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South West England

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* Exeter Mathematics School, a sixth-form in

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References

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