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Issues with the GCSE ICT Curriculum - evidence provided to e-skills UK
February 2009
A consideration of the issues relating to the revision of the GCSE ICT and Computing curricula
View the full response (PDF)
Competition encourages excellence in British computer science research
18 September 2008: For the second year running a student from the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton has been named the winner of the Distinguished Dissertation Competition 2008. The annual award is presented by the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC), in conjunction with the British Computer Society (BCS).
The award selects the best British PhD/DPhil dissertations in computer science and publishes the winning dissertation and runner up submission on the BCS website. The prize winner will receive his award at the 2008 BCS Roger Needham Lecture, at the Royal Society in London, on 12th November.
Over 30 nominations were received for this year's competition covering a wide range of research topics and after a rigorous review process involving international experts, the judging panel selected three dissertations that were regarded as exemplary.
Overall winner
Talal Rahwan, Algorithms for Coalition Formation in Multi-Agent Systems, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
Short-listed candidates
Pushmeet Kohli, Minimizing Dynamic and Higher Order Energy Functions using Graph Cuts, Microsoft Research and formerly Department of Computing, Oxford Brookes University.
Paolo Missier, Modelling and Computing the Quality of Information in e-Science, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester.
Professor Jane Hillston of Edinburgh University, chair of CPHC/BCS Distinguished Dissertations Competition said of this year's competition: "On behalf of the Distinguished Dissertations Panel I should like to congratulate the authors of these theses, and their supervisors and departments. Each year the standard rises and the judging panel face an ever more difficult task. The competition and the high standard of entries is truly a testament to the excellence of computer science research in the UK – we are already looking forward to next year!"
For more information please see the BCS website www.bcs.org
CPHC in the media
Get.hobsons.co.uk
'Calls for IT skills deficit to be addressed'
17 June 2008
'The growing skills deficit in the UK IT industry needs to be addressed now before it gets worse, the programme manager of Intellect has said. Carrie Hartnell wrote on Computing.co.uk that research suggests the skills shortage in the sector is likely to worsen over the next few years. A recent study by the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing illustrates the problem: it predicts that demand for IT professionals will increase by up to 15% in the next eight years, while stating that the number of students aiming for jobs in the industry has fallen by 50% since 2001'.
Full Story
Computing.co.uk
'Why firms must combat female aversion to IT'
David Neal, IT Week 17 June 2008
'A new report commissioned by the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing in the UK (CPHC) warns that a decline in the number of UK students studying technology could have damaging repercussions for the economy'.
Full Story
Intellect.computing.co.uk
'Skills? We need IT now...'
Carrie Hartnell, 13 June 2008
'A study commissioned by the UK's Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC), predicted, this week, that demand for IT skills is expected to grow by 15% over the next 8 years'.
Full Story
TimesHigherEducation.co.uk
'Fall in Numbers Threaten UK'
12 June 2008
'The decline in the number of undergraduates studying computing is threatening the UK's position in the world economy, according to a report from the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing'.
Full Story
DoesWhat.com
UK Computing Students are disappearing'
8 June 2008
'A study on the IT labour market in the UK, commissioned by the 'Council of Professors and Heads of Computing' shows that UCAS Computing applications have fallen by 48.2% since 2001'.
Full Story
ComputerWeekly.com
'Skills shortage looms at student numbers drop'
6 June 2008
'The number of computing students in universities and colleges has dropped almost 50% since 2001 to below 1996 levels, prompting fears that IT departments are on the verge of a new skills shortage. The shortfall, revealed in a study commissioned by IT professors and heads of computing of the UK's leading universities and colleges, coincides with rising demand from businesses for skilled IT professionals'.
Full Story
CBRonline.com
'UK skills shortage deepens'
Janine Milne, 6 June 2008
'Figures released by the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC) revealed a worrying educational trend that will impact employers' ability to hire new talent and innovate'.
Full Story
ITpro.co.uk
'Number of Computing students continues to fall'
Nicole Kobie, 6 June 2008
'The number of students applying to study computing at university has fallen by 48 per cent since 2001, according to a new report - and the issue is only going to get worse. The report, by Research Insights for the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing, showed that the number of students taking computing courses at higher education level has fallen by 22 per cent from 2004 to 2007, and is at its lowest level since 2000'.
Full Story
ComputerWeekly.com
'School IT curriculum putting students off IT career, E-Skills head says'
Rebecca Thompson, 20 May 2008
'Research by E-Skills UK and the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing has concluded that youngsters drop out of IT at A-level, because of negative experiences at school'.
Full Story
Times on-line report referencing CPHC Information Group briefing note
20 November 2007
Competition encourages excellence in British computer science research
19 October 2007
A student from the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton has been selected by the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC), in conjunction with the British Computer Society (BCS), as the winner of the Distinguished Dissertation Competition 2007.
The annual award selects the best British PhD/DPhil dissertations in computer science and publishes the winning dissertation and runner up submission on the BCS website. The prize winner will receive his award at the 2007 BCS Roger Needham Lecture, at the Royal Society in London, on Tuesday 13th November.
Over 20 submissions were received covering a wide range of research topics and after a rigorous review process involving international experts, the judging panel selected three dissertations that were regarded as exemplary.
Overall winner
Rajdeep Dash, Distributed Mechanisms for Multi-Agent Systems: Analysis and Design (School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton)
Short-listed candidates
Ross Duncan, Types for Quantum Computing (Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford)
Josef Sivic, Efficient Visual Search of Images and Videos (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford)
Professor Roger Hubbold, Chair, CPHC/BCS Distinguished Dissertations Competition said of this year's competition: "On behalf of the Distinguished Dissertations Panel I should like to congratulate the authors of these theses, and their supervisors and departments. The high standard of the dissertations is a testament to the excellence of computer science research in the UK - long may it continue!".
More Information on the Distinguished Dissertations Competition and the dissertations of previous winners can be found at www.bcs.org/awards/dissertations.
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