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Early bird registration for UKICER 2025 in Edinburgh now open until Monday 4th August

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The UK and Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER) conference, takes place on Thursday 4th of September 2025 and Friday 5th of September 2025 in Edinburgh, UK following on from Manchester in 2024. [1] There are also two free co-located pre-conference events taking place at the same location on Wednesday 3rd of September 2025 at 1-5 pm.

UKICER will include keynotes from Keith Quille from TU Dublin, Judy Robertson and Serdar Abaci from the University of Edinburgh. Early bird registration now open until 5th August. Upon registering, attendees can sign up to one of two free collocated pre-conference events taking place on Wednesday 3rd of September 2025 with Pavlos Andreadis on GenAI Integration in Computer Science Education and Aurora Constantin on Embedding Accessibility in Computer Science Education

We’re taking a break from journal clubbing during August, but we’ll be back in September at UKICER in Edinburgh. If you’re going, see you there. Find out more and register at ukicer.com 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

CC BY Edinburgh Skyline picture by Andrew Colin on Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/Ef$W

Cite this post using DOI:10.59350/sigcse.3022

References

  1. Troy Astarte, Duncan Hull, Fiona McNeill and Faron Moller (2024) UKICER ’24: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research, Manchester, UK DOI:10.1145/3689535

Join us to discuss Computing in school in the UK & Ireland on Monday 5th December at 2pm GMT

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Computing is widely taught in schools in the UK and Ireland, but how does the subject vary across primary and secondary education in Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland? Join us to discuss via a paper published at UKICER.com by Sue Sentance, Diana Kirby, Keith Quille, Elizabeth Cole, Tom Crick and Nicola Looker. [1]

Many countries have increased their focus on computing in primary and secondary education in recent years and the UK and Ireland are no exception. The four nations of the UK have distinct and separate education systems, with England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland offering different national curricula, qualifications, and teacher education opportunities; this is the same for the Republic of Ireland. This paper describes computing education in these five jurisdictions and reports on the results of a survey conducted with computing teachers. A validated instrument was localised and used for this study, with 512 completed responses received from teachers across all five countries The results demonstrate distinct differences in the experiences of the computing teachers surveyed that align with the policy and provision for computing education in the UK and Ireland. This paper increases our understanding of the differences in computing education provision in schools across the UK and Ireland, and will be relevant to all those working to understand policy around computing education in school.

(we’ll be joined by the co-authors of the paper: Sue Sentance and Diana Kirby from the University of Cambridge and the Raspberry Pi Foundation with a lightning talk summary to start our discussion)

All welcome, as usual we’ll be meeting on zoom, details at sigcse.cs.manchester.ac.uk/join-us. Thanks to Joseph Maguire at the University of Glasgow for proposing this months paper.

References

  1. Sue Sentance, Diana Kirby, Keith Quille, Elizabeth Cole, Tom Crick and Nicola Looker (2022) Computing in School in the UK & Ireland: A Comparative Study UKICER ’22: Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research 5 pp 1–7 DOI: 10.1145/3555009.3555015