Pupils are to sit a GCSE exam fully on screen for the first time, an exam board has announced. Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations board (OCR) said it will offer a digitally-assessed GCSE in ...

Despite computing education in UK schools going through a massive revolution over the past few years to try and make it more relevant to our increasingly technology driven lives, the new GCSE in ...

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Exam board OCR said schools can still opt for a paper-based assessment for its computer science qualification if they prefer. Exam board OCR staged a pilot of digital exams earlier this year and will ...

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An exam board is to offer a digitally assessed GCSE in computer science for pupils starting their course in 2025, in what it described as a UK first. Jill Duffy, chief executive of OCR, said a pilot ...

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Exam board OCR said schools can still opt for a paper-based assessment for its computer science qualification if they prefer. An exam board is to offer a digitally assessed GCSE in computer science ...

EDUCATION secretary Michael Gove said last week that information communications technology (ICT) students are ‘bored out of their minds’, as he announced plans to scrap the computing curriculum.