Britain's Department of Education is to give its moribund ICT curriculum six of the best--with a little help from Facebook [3]. The social media firm, along with IBM and Microsoft, is to help revamp computer classes for kids, after its curriculum was axed earlier this year [4] as not being fit for purpose.

Education Minister Michael Gove unveiled the details this morning, which include tempting graduates in possession of either a First-Class or Upper-Second degrees with a £20,000 scholarship and a place on a brand-new teacher training scheme. Fifty of these places will be available. There is also a plan to link university comp-sci departments with schools and future employers--hence the involvement of Microsoft and IBM, both of whom already provide support to IT courses.

Where Facebook's involvement will lie, however, is a bit of a mystery, although the firm's first engineering office outside the U.S. was opened by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in London earlier this week [5]. So, internships?