Informatics in the UK: current perspectives

dc.creator	Su White
dc.creator	Alastair D. Irons
dc.date	2007-07-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:20:03Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:20:03Z
dc.identifier	1473-7507
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/9580d42e1f9245d6b90e934e06da6b23
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/28009
dc.description	Computing, Computer Science and Information Science are the nearest UK equivalents of the European Informatics degree. Informatics is a term more often associated with research or multidisciplinary applications of Computing. Barely five percent of UK departments concerned with the discipline actually use the word Informatics in their title, and potential students searching the application clearing house for university undergraduate courses would not find Informatics in its subject index. However the components of European understanding of the Informatics discipline are widely researched, taught and studied throughout UK Higher Education. If we are to support mobility of study in Europe or to successfully pursue international educational collaboration, then understanding the realisation of the discipline in the UK and how it relates to understanding in other countries, is important and necessary to support constructive future discussion, planning and action. This paper presents data collected via surveys of existing practice, individual interviews and group discussions. It summarises and analyses the structure of current practice, and draws on current debate and technological trends to suggest future direction of our fields of study in the short and medium term.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Higher Education Academy Subject Network for Information & Computer Sciences
dc.relation	http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/vol6iss3/white_and_irons.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1473-7507
dc.source	ITALICS, Vol 6, Iss 3, Pp 12-26 (2007)
dc.subject	computers and education
dc.subject	informatics education
dc.subject	computer science curriculum design
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Informatics in the UK: current perspectives
dc.type	article