{"id":112619,"date":"2025-09-03T23:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112619\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T23:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:17:06","slug":"the-tech-staff-going-back-to-school-to-teach-the-next-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112619\/","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":112620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[4323,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-112619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-computing","tag-computing","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}