Firms put up £426,500 while Department for Education adds £338,000 in ongoing skills push



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Organisations, including the tech firms listed, have put forward a total of £426,500 while the Department for Education (DfE) is throwing in £338,000, which will be used across a variety of schemes to train more teachers.

The hope is that 45,000 new teachers will pass through the schemes, equipping them with the necessary skills to teach the new computing syllabus, which will have a focus on programming and algorithms.

  Microsoft, Google and IBM stump up cash to train 45,000 computing teachers