Games in the ICT national curriculum

Andrew Hague writes on the Computing At School Google Group ( http://groups.google.com/group/computing-at-school/msg/66d3a8b81a665750)

 For those that might have missed these today:

"Sony UK boss Ray Maguire has urged the government, educators and the
private sector to adopt games into the national curriculum "relatively
quickly."

"The time is right now to do it," he told the audience at the Learning
Without Frontiers conference in London today. "

        http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-01-11-sony-the-time-is-now...

"Elite creator David Braben has strongly criticised the current
digital national curriculum in the UK.
Referring to his own self-taught programming skills on Acorn Electrons
and BBC Micros, he worried that today "the equivalent kid to me would
probably hate ICT and therefore probably be put off computers for
good." "

        http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-01-11-braben-every-kid-i-t...

Any comments? What do you think?  Sue