Computer Science to be included in EBacc

Sooraj Shah
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Michael Gove says Computer Science will be 'fourth science'

Computer science is to be included as part of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), a performance indicator that measures the percentage of students in a school who achieve grades A* to C at GCSE leve...

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