Project Details
Description
The National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) was set up in 2018 after the Royal Society’s After the Reboot report to address the ‘patchy and fragile’ nature of the implementation of the 2014 computing curriculum reforms in England. The budget was for £84m over five years and the contract was awarded to a consortium of STEM Learning, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and BCS, the chartered institute for IT. The brief was to develop computing curriculum resources for age 5–16, professional development for teachers, with a particular focus on up-skilling non-specialists for the teaching of GCSE computer science, and online support for A-Level computer science students.
Roehampton’s Professor Miles Berry has played a pivotal role in computing education in England and internationally. He was part of the group who drafted the content of England’s national curriculum for computing and was one of the reviewers of the After the Reboot report. School’s minister Nick Gibb asked Prof Berry to join the NCCE’s inaugural academic board in 2019, overseeing and guiding the work of the centre, ensuring quality and rigour in its output, supporting the centre in sharing research with teachers and working with the centre to establish it as a leading international voice in computing education.
In the first year of the centre’s operation, Roehampton took on the role of interim regional delivery partner for London, developing a community of accredited trainers, hosting a number of training days on campus and supporting a network of schools across the capital to host training themselves. Subsequently, Prof Berry and colleagues continued to work with the London hub schools from the second year of the centre’s operation onwards.
By 2022, over 60,000 teachers from more than 20,000 schools had engaged in NCCE CPD, with more than 7,000 achieving at least ten hours of subject knowledge training. There has been more than a million downloads of Teach Computing Curriculum resources, with over half of all A Level computer science students engaging with the Isaac Computer Science content. Nearly 500 volunteers led local communities of practice, providing peer support and networking for over 25,000 teachers.
The NCCE contract was renewed in early 2023, with somewhat reduced scope, and awarded to STEM Learning as the sole supplier. The School’s Minister invited Professor Berry to take over from Professor Simon Peyton Jones FRS as chair of the academic board. Between 2019 and 2024, the number of students taking GCSE computer science had risen by 19.8%, with A Level computer science entries up by 83% over the same period. NCCE’s Teach Computing Curriculum resources have continued to form the basis for many schools' computing provision, and form the basis of the Oak National Academy resources and the Raspberry Pi Foundation computing curriculum. Isaac CS provision has expanded to include support for GCSE computer science provision.
Prof Berry has been in great demand as an international speaker, discussing the work of the NCCE in supporting the implementation of England’s computing curriculum with educators, academics and officials in Serbia, Argentina, Portugal, Spain and Japan.
Roehampton’s Professor Miles Berry has played a pivotal role in computing education in England and internationally. He was part of the group who drafted the content of England’s national curriculum for computing and was one of the reviewers of the After the Reboot report. School’s minister Nick Gibb asked Prof Berry to join the NCCE’s inaugural academic board in 2019, overseeing and guiding the work of the centre, ensuring quality and rigour in its output, supporting the centre in sharing research with teachers and working with the centre to establish it as a leading international voice in computing education.
In the first year of the centre’s operation, Roehampton took on the role of interim regional delivery partner for London, developing a community of accredited trainers, hosting a number of training days on campus and supporting a network of schools across the capital to host training themselves. Subsequently, Prof Berry and colleagues continued to work with the London hub schools from the second year of the centre’s operation onwards.
By 2022, over 60,000 teachers from more than 20,000 schools had engaged in NCCE CPD, with more than 7,000 achieving at least ten hours of subject knowledge training. There has been more than a million downloads of Teach Computing Curriculum resources, with over half of all A Level computer science students engaging with the Isaac Computer Science content. Nearly 500 volunteers led local communities of practice, providing peer support and networking for over 25,000 teachers.
The NCCE contract was renewed in early 2023, with somewhat reduced scope, and awarded to STEM Learning as the sole supplier. The School’s Minister invited Professor Berry to take over from Professor Simon Peyton Jones FRS as chair of the academic board. Between 2019 and 2024, the number of students taking GCSE computer science had risen by 19.8%, with A Level computer science entries up by 83% over the same period. NCCE’s Teach Computing Curriculum resources have continued to form the basis for many schools' computing provision, and form the basis of the Oak National Academy resources and the Raspberry Pi Foundation computing curriculum. Isaac CS provision has expanded to include support for GCSE computer science provision.
Prof Berry has been in great demand as an international speaker, discussing the work of the NCCE in supporting the implementation of England’s computing curriculum with educators, academics and officials in Serbia, Argentina, Portugal, Spain and Japan.
| Acronym | NCCE |
|---|---|
| Status | Finished |
| Effective start/end date | 16/04/19 → 31/03/25 |
| Links | https://teachcomputing.org/ |