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TTechnocamps is a government-funded initiative, offering teacher training and resources for computer science. The National Centre is delivered by a consortium of STEM Learning, Raspberry Pi Foundation and BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.

Function
The National Centre for Computing Education provides training in computing education for primary and secondary schools and colleges, including bursary-funded face-to-face courses around England, and free online courses, delivered through FutureLearn. It also offers a repository of teaching resources for computing through its website, teachcomputing.org. The NCCE programme is organised around a network of school-based Computing Hubs, geographically distributed around the country. These Hubs ensure that the programme is school-led and reflects the needs of teachers on the ground.

History
In 1995, the Department of Computer Science at Swansea University established an industrial liaison unit, ITWales, which served to facilitate impact of Swansea researchers on the Welsh economy through intervention and engagement. This unit expanded its operation into other Welsh Universities, and its foremost programme, Technocamps, established a hub in every campus-based University in Wales. Technocamps ultimately outgrew and absorbed ITWales. The Director of Technocamps, Professor Faron Moller, was elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2016 for research excellence and leadership of Technocamps.

The centre was set up following the January 2016 government report Digital Skills for the UK Economy which highlighted the digital skills gap in the UK economy, produced by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), which looked at research carried out by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), which itself closed in 2017.

Funding of £84m was announced in the November 2017 United Kingdom budget to upskill around 8000 computer science teachers. Support would come from the Behavioural Insights Team and FutureLearn (a MOOC online course from the OU).

The centre was created in November 2018 with £84m of government funding.

Chair
Simon Peyton Jones FRS, of Microsoft Research, was appointed as the organisation's chairman in March 2019. It has been created by STEM Learning at the University of York, the BCS (British Computer Society) and the Raspberry Pi Foundation. It is funded by the Department for Education. The Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge will also provide assistance.

North East England

 * Cardinal Hume Catholic School, Gateshead in Tyne and Wear
 * Carmel College, Darlington, with Carmel College Sixth Form
 * Kings Priory School, Tynemouth in Tyne and Wear

North West England

 * Bishop Rawstorne Church of England Academy, Croston in Lancashire
 * The Fallibroome Academy, Cheshire
 * Priestley College, Warrington

Yorkshire and the Humber

 * All Saints Roman Catholic School, York, South Bank, York
 * Bingley Grammar School, West Yorkshire
 * Harrogate Grammar School, North Yorkshire

East Midlands

 * Beauchamp College, Oadby in Leicestershire

West Midlands

 * Bishop Challoner Catholic College, Kings Heath
 * The Chase School, Malvern, Worcestershire
 * City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College, Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire

East of England

 * Chesterton Community College, Chesterton, Cambridge
 * Dereham Neatherd High School, Dereham in Norfolk
 * Saffron Walden County High School, Saffron Walden in Essex
 * Sandringham School, Marshalswick, St Albans in Hertfordshire
 * St Clement Danes School, Chorleywood in Hertfordshire
 * West Suffolk College, Suffolk
 * Westcliff High School for Girls, Southend-on-Sea in Essex

Greater London

 * Newstead Wood School, Orpington in Bromley

South East England
The Mathematics and Science Learning Centre at the University of Southampton is a delivery partner.
 * Dartford Grammar School, Kent
 * Denbigh School, Milton Keynes
 * Langley Grammar School, Langley, Berkshire
 * Maidstone Grammar School for Girls, Kent
 * Park House School, Newbury, Berkshire

South West England

 * The Castle School
 * Exeter Mathematics School, a sixth-form in Exeter in Devon
 * Pate's Grammar School, Cheltenham
 * Truro and Penwith College, Cornwall