The National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) is funded by the Department for Education and supporting partners, and has a vision for every child in every school in England to have a world-leading computer education. To achieve this it is tasked with improving the range of provision for computing education in England.
The professional development programme has been designed to guide primary teachers through a comprehensive offer of courses, enrichment and resources which leads to a nationally recognised certificate that takes about 20 hours to complete.
The Computer Science Accelerator is a professional development programme for teachers, funded by the Department for Education, leading to a national certificate in computer science subject knowledge. The programme helps develop or refresh subject knowledge up to GCSE and is split across a number of courses to suit experience.