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 ...

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Exam board OCR said schools can still opt for a paper-based assessment for its computer science qualification if they prefer. Exam board OCR staged a pilot of digital exams earlier this year and will ...

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 said ...

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 computer ...

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 ...

Exam board OCR staged a pilot of digital exams earlier this year and will now introduce it for GCSE computer science (Alamy/PA) An exam board is to offer a digitally assessed GCSE in computer science ...

The government will attempt to reverse the declining numbers of young people studying computing at school through a broader programme of study of the subject that retains its core principles. This ...