It is as important, if not more so, than sex education, he claims. Speaking to Pocket-lint for the latest episode of the Pocket-lint Podcast, author Robert Wigley, who has worked with the UK government as part of his day job as chair of UK Finance, revealed the findings of his research into Generation Z's digital habits - not least his own adolescent sons'. The lack of a digital education at curriculm level worries him: "We need to see the education system recognise that children now develop their personalities in an online world," he said. "And so, just as we give them sex education at school as part of the national curriculum, I think we need responsible internet use as part of the national curriculum too. In fact, I would argue it's a much more ubiquitously necessary skill earlier in your childhood than, frankly, sex education is.