Top graduates are to be enticed into a career in teaching by a new £20,000 scholarship programme.
The Government has linked up with the British Computer Society and The Chartered Institute for IT to boost the teaching of computer science by helping to train the first generation of outstanding specialist teachers in this vital subject.
The new Computer Science courses will start from September 2013.
Around 50 scholarships worth £20,000 each will be available in the first year. Any graduate with a 2.1 or first class degree will be eligible to apply.
AWARDS: A York University academic has received two major international awards.
Mike Drummond, a professor in York's Centre for Health Economics, has received the first ever honorary doctorate awarded by Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
The Society for Medical Decision Making in the USA has also presented Professor Drummond with the John Eisenberg Award in recognition of his exemplary leadership in the practical application of medical decision-making research.
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