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Scrapping Ict Gcse 'was a Mistake' Finds Education and It Skills Report


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A new report on the U.K. government's November 2015 decision to scrap ICT at secondary and A-Level schools 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 specialized, 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 report, "GCSE Reform: A New Dawn of Computer Science," looks into the effectiveness of this strategy.

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