The_King Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 SINGAPORE - All upper primary pupils will have coding classes from next year, as part of the Government's goal to develop a healthy pipeline of tech talent for the digital economy. Conducted by the Education Ministry and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the 10-hour enrichment program will be piloted this year at some schools for pupils after their Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE), before being rolled out to all primary schools by 2020. Code For Fun (CFF) will seek to develop an appreciation of core computational thinking and coding concepts in pupils, through simple visual programming-based lessons. This was one of several key announcements made by Minister for Communications and Information S Iswaran at the ministry's workplan seminar, which centred around building a safe and inclusive digital society for Singaporethat leaves no one behind. At the seminar on Wednesday (July 10) at the Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre, the minister also announced the formation of a new specialised telecoms cyber security specialist team, and more efforts to equip Singapore's ageing population with basic digital skills. He also gave an update on Government initiatives to help companies digitalise their business. Mr Iswaran said: "We are also reaching out to every enterprise, every worker, and every citizen, so that we can bring all of them, every enterprise regardless of its size, big or small, every worker regardless of education level and every citizen regardless of their tech savviness - bringing them into this overall national effort so that we can build a digital economy that is made up of enterprises that are digitally capable, empowered by workers who are digitally skilled and citizens who are digitally connected." This, he said later, starts from young, and Code for Fun will seek to excite young Singaporeans about the opportunities in the digital age and expose them to the skill sets needed for the potentially lucrative digital economy. In 2016, a study by Oxford Economics and Huawei estimated that the size of the global digital economy amounted to about US$11.5 trillion (S$15.6 trillion) or over 15 per cent of global gross domestic product. And closer to home, a study published by Microsoft last year estimated that the digital economy would contribute another US$10 billion to Singapore's GDP by 2021 to increase the growth rate by 0.6 per cent annually. The Ministry of Communications and Information said in a fact sheet on Wednesday that since Code for Fun was launched as an optional enrichment programme in 2014, it has benefited 93,000 students. It added that the programme will continue at the secondary level as an option to complement existing efforts in computing education, which include computing subjects taken at O-Level (elective) and A-Level. Mr Iswaran also announced that the Cyber Security Agency (CSA) will be expanding its youth engagement outreach with the Singapore Cyber Youth Programme (SG Cyber Youth), a collaboration with the cyber security industry and academia. This programme will reach out to 10,000 secondary and tertiary students in the next three years to provide them with opportunities to explore cyber security as a career and expose them to relevant technical knowledge and soft skills. It will build on CSA's existing efforts, which include the Youth Cyber Exploration Programme (YCEP) boot camp, a multi-day initiative which aims to introduce secondary school students to the opportunities of a cybersecurity career and was started in collaboration with Singapore Polytechnic last year. All five polytechnics are now involved in the boot camp, and this year's edition attracted a turnout of 400 students from over 30 secondary schools coming together to learn about cyber security. Among other new initiatives under the new SG Cyber Youth will be a new advanced-level of the YCEP to be introduced next year, said MCI. The ministry also said that students can also look forward to participating in cyber security learning journeys CSA holds with the Education Ministry and its industry partners, adding that more initiatives will be announced next year. https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/coding-to-be-made-compulsory-for-all-upper-primary-pupils-next-year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XianGe Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 But not everyone suitable to be coder... Huai dun they intro banking and finance so sinkies can go into tat field rather than let FT take the easier job? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chamfer Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 Why they dun want to train more engineering people. Engineering is the basic block to manufacture things include computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beyond Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 y dun they teach subjects tat all parents can actually help teach? 1 I think about you. But I don't say it anymore -Marguerite Duras, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaur4man Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 3 hours ago, chamfer said: Why they dun want to train more engineering people. Engineering is the basic block to manufacture things include computers. Engineering is dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chamfer Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 12 minutes ago, aaur4man said: Engineering is dead. It's more like the youngsters don't want to get their hands dirty and the long working hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaur4man Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 (edited) 17 minutes ago, chamfer said: It's more like the youngsters don't want to get their hands dirty and the long working hours. It's more like employers don't pay enough for them to get dirty. Edited July 10, 2019 by aaur4man 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beautifuldays Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 https://discover.uplevel.work/ Sic coding projects link 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XianGe Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 2 hours ago, chamfer said: It's more like the youngsters don't want to get their hands dirty and the long working hours. Bad returns... If the pay and welfare is better than banking/finance then it wun be tis dead... Engineering company all underbid + owners wanna upgrade their lexus/porsche/mercz every few years so wun invest in their ppl/environment... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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