School curriculum puts students off pursuing IT carrer, E-Skills says.

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The article informs that school curriculum for IT is putting students off pursuing IT career in Great Britian. Research by E-Skills UK and the Council for Professors and Heads of Computing concluded that students drop out of IT after A-levels, because of negative experiences at school. According to Karen Price, chief executive at E-Skills UK, the school curriculum also has a knock-on effect into higher education and employment, as students wrongly presume that school information communication technologies (ICT) courses are an indicator of the content of IT-related degree courses and careers. Price adds that the curriculum for General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) and A-levels is having a detrimental effect on the IT industry as a whole.