university, but at school. ICT education was largely learning office skills -- like Word, Power Point and Excel -- so we were teaching our children how to use an application, but not how to create one. We are effectively teaching them to read, but not to write. So our number one recommendation was to have computer science included in the national curriculum as an essential discipline. It has been taken on board, and Michael Gove (Secretary of State for Education) announced earlier this year that the new curriculum for ICT is being drawn up now, and schools are allowed to subscribe to the ICT Computer Science curriculum today. So they will be reapplying the curriculum with Computer Science at its core. That could be transformation for the country; if we can get people creating technology, rather than just using. OneMetal What do you think of the Raspberry Pi? Ian The Raspberry Pi is a fantastic initiative, rather like the BBC Micro in the eighties when children and adults were programming back then. All of that was lost over time as computers and networks were locked down. So now here is another affordable computer, and for 22 you've got the functionality of 256MB, with a Linux operating system, that plays video like an Iphone 4, and will have embedded software in the next iteration, so rather than seeing a blank screen they will be able to boot up some software and start programming. This is fantastic news, and another recommendation for