The trade body for the UK's technology sector, Intellect has called on the government to drop ICT lessons from their national curriculum. The trade body believes that the subject is neither useful for students and nor for employers.

The ICT has advised the government to replace ICT with lessons that focus on higher value computer science skills. The education institutes could teach ICT by merging it other subjects to ensure that all students have basic ICT skills, interactive and multimedia technology. The methods will help the students in building better ICT skills and greater creativity.

Intellect's Education Programme Manager, John Hoggard said that the current ICT curriculum is only focused on teaching the students, that how to use a limited number of software packages. The ICT lessons fail to encourage students to develop more advanced computer science skills.

The Intellect believes that computing should be a part of the English Baccalaureate. Student must be taught more advanced skills and techniques related to computers.

Tim Hatch, a Member of Intellect's Education Group said that is important to develop the advanced computing skills and basic ICT skills among the kids of the country to ensure that they can compete with these emerging economies.