People looking for teaching jobs in London could soon find they will need to be increasingly specialised due to the rise of the free school.

These institutions have been set up by the government and have a higher level of autonomy with which they can decide what is taught in their classrooms.

An example of this is the plans of a founding father of the UK computer gaming industry to create a free school in Hammersmith where teachers will be expected to explain the intricacies of programming and coding.

Ian Livingston, is the former boss of Eidos - the company that created Tomb Raider - and now wants to secure the future of the UK's gaming industry by changing the classroom. Core subjects in the free school will be science, technology, engineering, art and maths, and in a break from the national curriculum, all pupils aged between 11 and 18 will be taught computer science.

Mr Livingstone believes this type of education system will equip pupils with skills  they can use in the real world, rather than teaching the next generation to memorise "random facts".

He told the Evening Standard: "We are at a crossroads. Do we want our children to be controlled by technology or do we want them to control technology?"

The application for the school will be submitted to the Department for Education at the start of next year, with a planned opening date of September 2015. Any pupil can apply and no previous coding experience is necessary. 

Mr Livingstone said: "This is a movement not a business. I hope it is the first of many."

He has already been instrumental in introducing a new computing curriculum in UK schools, having wrote a report about the deterioration of the British video gaming industry due to the lack of programming skills being taught in classrooms.

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