Examining body AQA has teamed with Microsoft to create a new computer science GCSE to address demands from the IT industry to develop more candidates with the necessary IT skills. The qualification ...

The new qualification comes in the wake of comments by Google chairman Eric Schmidt in a MacTaggart lecture last August. Mr Schmidt said that Britain was "throwing away its computer heritage," a ...

An exam board is to offer a digitally assessed GCSE in computer science for pupils starting their course in 2025, in what it described as a UK first. Jill Duffy, chief executive of OCR, said a pilot ...