The computer science GCSE requires pupils to be proficient programmers to be successful. This has meant teachers now have to spend a great deal of time on programming in the year proceeding GCSE ...

GCSE coursework for Computer Science will not count for any marks amid fears about widespread cheating, the exam watchdog has said.

Only providing a single GCSE option of computer science fails to meet the needs of any student – except those that have at least some interest in becoming a computer scientist.

The number of students taking GCSE computing has fallen this year, with fewer girls and boys choosing the subject compared with 2024 ...

A shake-up of computing classes that puts greater emphasis on coding risks leaving girls and poorer students behind a study suggests.

GCSE computer science programming tasks worth a fifth of the marks will no longer count towards students' final grades after they were leaked online. Writing to students, exams regulator Ofqual ...

Coursework is set to be axed for computer science GCSEs after the exam watchdog uncovered answers to the assessments had been repeatedly leaked online.

Computer science GCSE is set to be graded less severely after Ofqual found grading standards in the subject were “more stringent” before Covid-19.

The British Computing Society, which lobbied for the new GCSE, insists that it always argued for a new IT qualification to complement computer science, but that was rejected by ministers.

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 ...

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 ...