Student interest in ICT finally seems to be growing with an increase of nearly 13% of students opting to take the exam at GCSE this year. Despite the rise, the government still plans to scrap the ...
The government is to scrap the teaching of the GCSE ICT curriculum in schools this September, with plans to replace the subject with the “rigorous” teaching of computer science and programming ...
A new report on the UK government's November 2015 decision to scrap ICT at GCSE and A-Level has collected opinions arguing that scrapping basic ICT was "a mistake" and that the education system would ...
Benjamin Wohl receives funding from The RCUK Digital Economy theme for his ongoing research into the UK computing curriculum. He is a volunteer with Code Club Uk and is a Cumbria STEM ambassador.
The good news is that 11.8% more students took computing in 2018 compared to the year before. The bad news is that 24% fewer students took ICT. There was a modest drop in the number who took maths.