Australia throws coding for kids a lifeline in industry plan

Days after a review of Australia's national curriculum recommended against teaching digital technologies – including computational thinking – as a discrete subject in the nation's schools, a new “Industry Innovation and Competitiveness Agenda” has proposed new funding to teach programming. The new Agenda [PDF] proposes to …

[Paul J Turner]

Interesting wording

'...the enhancement of an education facility in Australia...' not the creation. My bet would be IBM's initial foray into Australian education - Cherrybrook Technology High School

[Diogenes]

Left hand meet right hand

I suggest that this was set in train assuming the National Curriculum for DT would go through relatively unscathed.