The government is to scrap the teaching of GCSE ICT in schools this September, with plans to replace the subject with the “rigorous” teaching of computer science and programming subjects.

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Recent GCSE results revealed more students are choosing to study ICT, however the government still plans to scrap the curriculum two years ahead of the planned computer science replacement.

Only providing a single GCSE option of computer science fails to meet the needs of any student – except those that have at least some interest in becoming a computer scientist.

As of 2016, computer science will replace ICT at GCSE. ... "Getting rid of the ICT GCSE was a mistake," added John Palmer, faculty leader for IT, computing and business at The Chase.

When the decision to replace the ICT GCSE with only a GCSE in computing was made back in 2015, many teachers and researchers warned this might happen – given that ICT and computer science are ...