Anna Morris say.hello.to.anna@googlemail.com writes:
Should Microsoft design our national curriculum (and does Brian cox know the correct answer to this question?!)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9707886.stm
ok, so actually, this has really freaked me out, I had no idea that Microsoft were working directly with AQA to design the curriculum. Please can people feedback about this?
Anna
I don't have time to watch that, but if it's the thing that Simon Peyton Jones http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/simonpj/ is chairman of, don't be freaked out if he has sufficient influence. I am worried about the influence of Microsoft (amongst other things) on education in my university.
Obviously Brian Cox knows about everything, but I'm glad I had more substantial inspiration as a physicist, and then from people like SPJ in computing.