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 ...

After realising that lessons on Microsoft Office aren't particularly useful for schoolchildren, the UK government has started doubling down on coding. After launching a new computing curriculum in ...

The National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) has helped train more than 1,000 teachers to deliver the computing curriculum. Since its launch two years ago, the NCCE has trained about 1,300 ...

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 ...

Introduction of new syllabus may be reason number of girls taking subject more than halved in eight years, academics say The number of girls in England studying for a GCSE in computing has more than ...

Exam board OCR said schools can still opt for a paper-based assessment for its computer science qualification if they prefer. An exam board is to offer a digitally assessed GCSE in computer science ...