Exam board OCR said schools can still opt for a paper-based assessment for its computer science qualification if they prefer.

Curriculum Notes This clip will be relevant for teaching Computer Science. This topic appears in OCR, Edexcel, AQA, WJEC KS4/GCSE in England and Wales, CCEA GCSE in Northern Ireland and SQA ...

Until this year, the number of girls taking GCSE computer science had been on the rise, from 17,264 in 2022 to 19,061 in 2023 and then to 21,020 last year.

While the number of girls studying computer science has risen from 2,500 to 16,500 since 2014, the number of boys taking a GCSE in the subject is still three times higher.

More than half of England's secondary schools, 54%, did not offer GCSE computer science in 2015-16, a report from the Royal Society has found. It urged the government to increase spending on ...