Instead, it has turned into a damp squib, as the amount of time spent on teaching computing in schools has actually fallen. The introduction of a new computing curriculum in 2014 made England the first country in the world to make computer programming compulsory in schools. Girls made up only one in five entires for computer science exams at 16, and only one in 10 for exams taken at 18. One in five girls’ schools that had offered a GCSE in computer science in 2017 were no longer offering it in 2018. Computer science replaces the old ICT qualification, which focused more on digital literacy, such as word processing or using PowerPoint, rather than programming.

Source: Forbes May 08, 2019 09:11 UTC