Meeting the ICT education challenge

With ICT finally back on the radar in education, ICS Skills wants to meet the challenge of how to teach a classroom of students of different abilities and aptitudes at the same time, writes Jason Walsh

Claudia Delaney, head of education, ECDL Ireland: ‘We’re prepared to meet the challenge that schools face’

It is considered axiomatic that too many students fail to reach their potential, but the challenges of today’s education – and tomorrow’s workplace – can be difficult to address.

“In poor countries, only a quarter of secondary schoolchildren acquire at least a basic knowledge of maths, reading and science,” said Claudia Delaney, Head of Education at ECDL Ireland.

Even in the mostly rich countries of the OECD, about 30 per cent of teenagers ...