OCR said 88,350 students took the computer science GCSE in 2023, a 12% year-on-year increase.

This clip will be relevant for teaching Computer Science. This topic appears in OCR, Edexcel, AQA, WJEC KS4/GCSE in England and Wales, CCEA GCSE in Northern Ireland and SQA National 4/5 in Scotland.

The number of students taking GCSE computing has fallen this year, with fewer girls and boys choosing the subject compared with 2024 ...

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. It is a similar picture ...

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 ...