{"id":396782,"date":"2025-09-04T08:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/396782\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:34:17","slug":"the-tech-staff-going-back-to-school-to-teach-the-next-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/396782\/","title":{"rendered":"The tech staff going back to school to teach the next generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pupils at Hyndland Secondary School in Glasgow do have a computing science teacher and say they see clear benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pari says she loves the different skills involved including problem solving, creativity and thinking logically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She hopes to study aerospace engineering and computing science at university.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not just about coding, it&#8217;s about thinking logically, being creative with technology,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s lots of teamwork, which makes it more fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scottish government said the number of students taking Higher and National 5 computing science had increased and was now above pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said it had established and funded an organisation which promotes and supports computing science education, along with initiatives to promote teaching as a career choice for computing students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are working hard to encourage more students to take up a career in teaching,&#8221; added a spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our teaching bursary scheme offers a payment to career changers undertaking graduate teacher training in hard-to-fill subjects, including computing science.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pupils at Hyndland Secondary School in Glasgow do have a computing science teacher and say they see clear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3164],"tags":[3284,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-396782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115145112099867255","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}