In Scotland there would appear to be no strategy for CS education and the above illustrates why — it’s hard.

South of Hadrian’s Wall CS is approached differently, in a more collegiate fashion but in both countries there seems a great deal of emphasis on volunteers. Like STEM but unlike the never ending plethora of government initiatives the over-riding impression is of something done on the cheap.

One issue is that the already entrenched positions of such as dinosaur teaching unions defending the turf of subjects that have not moved for decades. And then there is attrition: a mind boggling turnover of young technically oriented graduate teachers. Why would you tolerate being dumped on with Form 1X every Friday when the better paid higher ups enjoy an easier ride.

Hereabouts the political class has been woeful in its mean spirited approach and behind the Brexit fiasco many crimes of omission have been done to our kids and their minders.