ICS Skills bringing ECDL to schools

Despite ICT now being all-pervasive in our lives, second-level students are still receiving limited computer education

Claudia Delaney, brand development executive for the European Computer Driving Licence at ICS Skills

Despite Ireland’s position as an EU-leader in information technology, many Irish schools still do not offer computing as a subject, and the introduction of computing to the Leaving Cert has only been announced this year and could take some time to come on stream.

Even then, the subject will be aimed at those likely to be considering computing-based courses at university. The fact that computers and other forms of information technology are now ...