Half of English schools fail to offer Computer Science at GCSE, claims Royal Society report

Nicholas Fearn
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Pupils being deprived of opportunity to learn computer science, warns Royal Society

More than half of schools in England are failing to offer pupils access to the revamped GCSE Computer Science course, a report had revealed today. According to the Royal Society, schools are fai...

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