ICT teaching English in schools in need of reform, he said in response to the review of video games and visual effects industry

computer classes are obsolete and very easy in English schools, the government warned.

computer classes - known as the Information Technology and Communications (ICT) -. Are "sufficiently rigorous" and in need of reform, the Ministry of Culture, Media and Sport said Monday

The warning came as part of the government's response to an independent review of how the UK can become the first center in the world of video games and visual effects companies.

The study, published in February by Ian Livingstone and Alex Hope, who are leading figures in the industry, asked the status of ICT in schools to be "urgently addressed". They warned that if the government could not solve the problem, the United Kingdom no longer remain globally competitive in these areas.

The UK games industry is worth over £ 2 billion in global sales per year - more than any of his movies or music. The visual effects is one of the fastest in Britain growing industries. But the two sectors are afraid of losing their advantage because schools and universities fail to teach students the skills of their industries need.

"Industries suffer from an education system that do not understand our needs," the magazine, adding that ICT in schools that teach word processing and spreadsheets students, not computer expertise , such as coding and programming.

was down 57% in the number of students ICT GCSE in the last five years, while last summer the number of students sitting A-level computer fell for the eighth years in a row.
The president of Google, Eric Schmidt, was a critique of the education system in the UK at a conference in August, saying the country had failed to capitalize on its history of innovation in science and engineering.