Scrapping ICT GCSE 'was a mistake' finds education and IT skills report
12 October 2016 • 3 min readShould have been kept alongside new coding-focused qualification argues CREST paper
A new report on the UK government's November 2015 decision to scrap ICT at GCSE and A-Level has collected opinions arguing that scrapping basic ICT was "a mistake" and that the education system would be best served with qualifications to allow both specialised, coding-based knowledge and the wider level of accessibility the original ICT studies allowed.
As of 2016, computer science will replace ICT at GCSE. The paper, which looks into the effectiveness of this strategy, has been published by CREST, a "not-for-profit accreditation body representing the technical information security industry".
