Peter EJ Kemp
@peterejkemp.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer KCL; @scaricomp; education stats; PISA; digital media research; @3Dami; wikibooks; ex TeachFirst (05); Dr, but not one who could fix your knee
Depends on the subject, KS3 computing has seen a 20% decline in hours, from from 4.3% of curriculum time to 3.1%. Did @beckyfrancis.bsky.social mention computing? KS4, far far worse.
scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/cpre/chapter...
scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/cpre/chapter...
September 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Depends on the subject, KS3 computing has seen a 20% decline in hours, from from 4.3% of curriculum time to 3.1%. Did @beckyfrancis.bsky.social mention computing? KS4, far far worse.
scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/cpre/chapter...
scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/cpre/chapter...
US CS degrees 1964-2022, female uptake getting better for bachelor degrees (peak 1984), MA and PhD have never been as well balanced as now (from a low base) #rstats #DataScience #python #csed #edusky
July 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
US CS degrees 1964-2022, female uptake getting better for bachelor degrees (peak 1984), MA and PhD have never been as well balanced as now (from a low base) #rstats #DataScience #python #csed #edusky
Also worth adding the national curriculum subject is computing, not computer science, so the question is like asking whether a school has a physics teacher (also important), when they might have a biology teacher teaching physics, and general science.
May 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Also worth adding the national curriculum subject is computing, not computer science, so the question is like asking whether a school has a physics teacher (also important), when they might have a biology teacher teaching physics, and general science.
The data is much worse than that, if you look at deciles, in 2023 only 32% of schools in the poorest areas offered A-level CS. This is from DfE entry tables, so it's for the population not a sample, data from the KCL @nuffieldfoundation.org project:
scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/cpre/chapter...
scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/cpre/chapter...
May 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The data is much worse than that, if you look at deciles, in 2023 only 32% of schools in the poorest areas offered A-level CS. This is from DfE entry tables, so it's for the population not a sample, data from the KCL @nuffieldfoundation.org project:
scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/cpre/chapter...
scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/cpre/chapter...
Interesting, it seems that academies at primary and secondary have slightly lower % of staff taking sick leave:
February 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Interesting, it seems that academies at primary and secondary have slightly lower % of staff taking sick leave:
#libreoffice what's up with your spell checker?
January 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
#libreoffice what's up with your spell checker?
So (according to PISA 2022), children in England are marginally more likely than children in other countries to say that they can write computer programs. Interesting position for Wales, which leads the UK pack, but doesn't have the same CS focus that England has had for the last 10 years
January 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
So (according to PISA 2022), children in England are marginally more likely than children in other countries to say that they can write computer programs. Interesting position for Wales, which leads the UK pack, but doesn't have the same CS focus that England has had for the last 10 years
Which also settles on the hypothesis of a cultural change in the 1980s
December 21, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Which also settles on the hypothesis of a cultural change in the 1980s
Found the F & L notebooks from ~1838, collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/documents/aa..., Lovelace starts writing programs in 1844(?) and references the L notebooks. So are the L & F notebooks programs? How complex are they? Do they use loops?
December 18, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Found the F & L notebooks from ~1838, collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/documents/aa..., Lovelace starts writing programs in 1844(?) and references the L notebooks. So are the L & F notebooks programs? How complex are they? Do they use loops?
Babbage likely to have 'written' programs prior to Ada, ToBitHistory argues "[Ada] thought carefully about how operations could be organized into groups that could be repeated, thereby inventing the loop". But Bromley (2000) suggests that Lovelace references loops seen in Babbage's sample programs
December 18, 2024 at 9:50 AM
Babbage likely to have 'written' programs prior to Ada, ToBitHistory argues "[Ada] thought carefully about how operations could be organized into groups that could be repeated, thereby inventing the loop". But Bromley (2000) suggests that Lovelace references loops seen in Babbage's sample programs
December 17, 2024 at 6:55 AM
This was part of a larger report:
www.kcl.ac.uk/ecs/assets/k...
with some tips for teachers (in England):
scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/kcl_computin...
www.kcl.ac.uk/ecs/assets/k...
with some tips for teachers (in England):
scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/kcl_computin...
December 3, 2024 at 4:59 PM
This was part of a larger report:
www.kcl.ac.uk/ecs/assets/k...
with some tips for teachers (in England):
scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/kcl_computin...
www.kcl.ac.uk/ecs/assets/k...
with some tips for teachers (in England):
scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/kcl_computin...
Hmm, realised I missed the last `don't` which wipes out all the muls before the end of the file, but still not playing ball...
December 3, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Hmm, realised I missed the last `don't` which wipes out all the muls before the end of the file, but still not playing ball...
what issue did you have with the text file and new lines? I have my code working with the example text for part two, but not on the whole text file, which is driving me mad. My attempt with regex:
github.com/plukethep/Ad...
github.com/plukethep/Ad...
December 3, 2024 at 2:10 PM
what issue did you have with the text file and new lines? I have my code working with the example text for part two, but not on the whole text file, which is driving me mad. My attempt with regex:
github.com/plukethep/Ad...
github.com/plukethep/Ad...
December 1, 2024 at 10:46 PM
November 28, 2024 at 12:59 PM
interesting read, but rather odd they skip over computing in school and miss the steep decline in computing education (scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/cpre/chapter...) when so much of VFX animation and film work is using digital skills.
November 13, 2024 at 8:45 PM
interesting read, but rather odd they skip over computing in school and miss the steep decline in computing education (scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/cpre/chapter...) when so much of VFX animation and film work is using digital skills.
Hi Folks, another batch of Young Animator of the Year Winners:
younganimator.uk/winners
Morgan, veteran of @3Dami won the 3D animation prize:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4211...
Congratulations to everyone! Next year's event hopefully being announced soon!
younganimator.uk/winners
Morgan, veteran of @3Dami won the 3D animation prize:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4211...
Congratulations to everyone! Next year's event hopefully being announced soon!
November 13, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Hi Folks, another batch of Young Animator of the Year Winners:
younganimator.uk/winners
Morgan, veteran of @3Dami won the 3D animation prize:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4211...
Congratulations to everyone! Next year's event hopefully being announced soon!
younganimator.uk/winners
Morgan, veteran of @3Dami won the 3D animation prize:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4211...
Congratulations to everyone! Next year's event hopefully being announced soon!