Why are student numbers falling in A level ICT?

Numbers of people taking ICT is not falling in KS3 and 4, but it is falling at A level and university. This is not because ICt is in danger of becoming less important in peoples lives, but because of the dull, sterile curriculum we peddle. have a look at http://www.e-skills.com/Research-and-policy/2661 and share it with your colleagues. The problem primarily is the ICT GCSE. When I began teaching ICT we were liberators showing students – and their parents – a new way of doing things, now power is usurped by technicians who decide what is and is not allowed past their filter and the students experience of ICT is way in front of the schools. My students spend 3 – to 5 hours a day on their home computer, but an average of 2 hours a week at school. Courses like the OCR Nationals and to a lesser extent DiDA have gone a long way to reverse this, and the Nationals are very popular at my school.As ICT teachers we need to raise the bar on what we do. An epiphany the other day when I found an ‘outstanding’ OFSTED subject report for Wigmore school.
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