About us

Our vision is for every child in every school in England to have a world-leading computing education.

The National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) is funded by the Department for Education and supporting partners and marks a significant investment in improving the provision of computing education in England. It is delivered by STEM Learning and is made up of the following programmes:

Teach Computing

Discover training, resources and guidance to help you teach computing with confidence.

Discover our teaching resources

Isaac Computer Science

Explore our online learning programme for A level computer science teachers and students.

Explore our A level resources

Computing Quality Framework

Use our guided journey to assess your school's computing offer.

Visit Computing Quality Framework

Our ambition

We aim to transform the way computing is taught in schools across the country – and enable more young people to benefit from studying this important subject. Through this, we believe that their skills and career opportunities will be enhanced.

Impact and evaluation

We evaluate the impact that our programs, services and resources are having on improving the quality of teaching computing in schools, and the learning experience of young people.

60,000+ teachers across England have engaged in CPD with us

1M+ curriculum resources downloaded by schools in England

1,600+ schools engaged with the Computing Quality Framework

3.5M+ questions answered on Isaac Computer Science

Diversity and inclusion

We believe that every individual, and group of individuals, should feel included and encouraged when engaging with computing education. We make sure that diversity and inclusion is integral to our planning, our programmes and materials, the way we work and how we behave. Within a culture that champions diversity and promotes inclusion, we know we are better able to advance our vision.

Our offer

We provide teachers with a comprehensive range of evidence-informed, high-quality support, including free resources and training courses.

Primary teachers

Resources and training for primary teachers.

Secondary teachers

Everything you need to teach computing at secondary level.

How you can support our work

We cannot do this alone and the help of partners is vital to achieving our goals. Find out more about how to help.

Get involved

We’ve achieved a lot already but there is more work needed to improve young people’s computing education.

School governors

You can play an important role in advocating for computing as a subject within your school.