However, it would be good if universities were instead to devote more money to devising courses with higher-level skills in subjects such as engineering which the country needs to meet the demands of the future.
But they say the requirement, for example, to devise course-work across different subjects is badly thought out and imposes hours of extra labour.
But they say the requirement, for example, to devise course work combining different subjects is badly thought out and imposes hours of extra labour.
Universities, businesses and others will have the opportunity to devise new courses and exams.
Intrigued by the effects of chance, rules, competition, challenge and foolery that games engender, they devise obstacle courses, puzzles and word and video constructs that invite viewer participation on, well, a different wavelength from more traditional art.
Many (me included, I should confess) will already be penning articles on the "Pittian Moment in the Reception of The Iliad" or devising new courses on "Classics in Film" or "The Trojan War in Popular Culture".
Of Gove's invitation to "universities, businesses and others" to "devise new courses and exams" for the ICT curriculum, he quotes Christopher Newfield on the Remaking the University blog as saying it "means that the public, directly or indirectly, does not participate in the investment, research, and development decisions that remake society year in and year out.
The programme will also offer specially devised short courses for the education and training of the NERC biological science community in environmental genomics techniques, and focused training, specifically in bioinformatics, will form a major component of the programme to maximise the knowledge gained from the postgenomic data generated.
"We devised a course that encompassed all that incredible terrain," Ventura said.
This weekend, the group is expected to reconvene to devise a course of action.
