Despite computing education in UK schools going through a massive revolution over the past few years to try and make it more relevant to our increasingly technology driven lives, the new GCSE in ...

Pupils are to sit a GCSE exam fully on screen for the first time, an exam board has announced. Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations board (OCR) said it will offer a digitally-assessed GCSE in ...

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Exam boards have been told to grade GCSEs in French, German and computer science more generously this summer. England’s exams regulator, Ofqual, has ruled there should be adjustments to grading ...

More than half of schools in England do not offer students a computer science GCSE, according to a report by the Royal Society. The study has found 54% of schools in England do not offer a computer ...

The current computing curriculum is so focused on programming skills that other essential digital skills are left by the wayside, according to a report by the Subject Choice, Attainment and ...

In a short film about physical computing BBC Radio 1 presenter Dev encounters an environmentally friendly Robot Delivery Vehicle. The Robot is designed to make last-mile home deliveries of small items ...

The Royal Society today released a damning report highlighting the woeful state of computer science education in England. There’s bad news all around, but here are the headline figures: 54 percent of ...

EDUCATION secretary Michael Gove said last week that information communications technology (ICT) students are ‘bored out of their minds’, as he announced plans to scrap the computing curriculum.

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