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How Learner-Led Computing Promotes Student Engagement

For 15 years, Apps for Good has been championing digital education, empowering young people from all backgrounds – especially girls and those from underrepresented backgrounds – to thrive. Our free, introductory computing courses put young people in the driving seat, encouraging them to draw on their lived experiences to tackle real-world challenges that matter to them.

Preparing the Next Generation: The Dual Skill Set Critical for Future Careers

We believe that all young people can shape their future through technology – they just need the right support and tools to develop digital and essential skills to make it happen. That’s why we’ve developed ready-made introductory computing courses that offer a zero-cost solution for both computing and non-specialist computing teachers.

Workforce woes hit national computing centre’s CPD recruitment

The £84 million government-funded centre was rated ‘requires improvement’ for a CPD KPI

OCR admits controversial GCSE computer science paper was ‘more difficult’

But top results remained higher than pre-Covid levels after grade boundaries were lowered

Speed read: Ofsted’s guide to a ‘high-quality’ computing curriculum

Lack of specialist computing teachers could have ‘significant consequences’

Salary top-ups for new teachers boost retention rates by 23%

Findings show bonuses can help fix staff shortages, researchers say, but one in five teachers still leave in some subjects

GCSE results 2021: Computing

Here are the trends in the latest computing GCSE results for summer 2021. The proportion of grade 9 results achieved by students, equivalent to a high A* under the old GCSE system, rose to 11 per cent, compared to 8.6 per cent in 2020 and 3.6 per cent in 2019. You can find the full […]

GCSE results 2021: PE records biggest rise in top grades

Physical education recorded the largest rise in top GCSE grades, while grades 7 or above issued in maths and chemistry only slowly inched up. This year the proportion of 16-year-old pupils in England earning a grade 7 or above at GCSE jumped to 30 per cent – compared with 27.5 per cent last year. But […]

First 23 computing hubs in England announced

The National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) has revealed the first 23 hubs chosen to improve computer science education in England. North Yorkshire, Kent, Essex, Hertfordshire and Tyne and Wear all have two hubs, with others scattered around the country in areas such as Devon, Berkshire, Cambridgeshire and Leicestershire (see full list below). Today’s announcement […]