A-level students still learning about floppy disks but not AI, Parliament told

Labour peer Lord Knight of Weymouth is chief education adviser at TES Global Ltd, a digital education company.

AI is a rapidly growing area of innovation (Alamy/PA)

A-level computer science students are still learning about floppy disks, but not artificial intelligence (AI), Parliament was told.

Labour peer Lord Knight of Weymouth, chief education adviser at TES Global Ltd, a digital education company, told peers he met an A-level student at the weekend who revealed this.

He said: “I was lucky enough this weekend to share a platform at a conference with a young woman whose name is Monica, who is very articulate, is studying computer science at A-level.