It was revealed in the recent Royal Society report that, currently, 54 per cent of schools in England – around 2,700 schools with 175,000 students – do not offer computer science at GCSE.
It means that only 11 per cent of students in England take GCSE computer science. Of these, only one in five are female.
Furthermore, the report also warned about the lack of qualified teachers of computer science, which is part of the reason behind the figures. In England, only 68 per cent of the recruitment target for the subject was hit between 2012 and 2017 (After the Reboot: Computing education in UK schools, Royal Society, November 2017).
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