Exam board OCR said schools can still opt for a paper-based assessment for its computer science qualification if they prefer.

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 ...

While the number of girls studying computer science has risen from 2,500 to 16,500 since 2014, the number of boys taking a GCSE in the subject is still three times higher.