Swedish National Agency for Education's reply to public consultation "All upper secondary school students should be able to study programming"
IT&Telekomföretagen has responded to the Swedish National Agency for Education's reply to public consultation of regulations on amendments to the Swedish National Agency for Education's regulations "All upper secondary school students should be able to read programming".
IT&Telecom thanks you for the opportunity to respond to the consultation.
We support Swedsoft's views on the National Agency for Education's proposal. In addition, we would like to emphasize the following parts that are also touched upon in Swedsoft's response:
- Programming will be a compulsory subject in preparatory programs and in vocational programs linked to technology and education.
- Close cooperation should be developed between engineering programs with a computer/IT orientation and teacher training programs to ensure competence development in pedagogy linked to programming.
- The economic and societal context in which programming is carried out should be clearly reflected in the programming subject, not least to involve and engage girls.
- Testing and safety should be integral parts of the subject.
- The web development course should have a clear starting point in the user perspective.