{"id":14957,"date":"2024-06-26T23:38:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/26\/number-of-girls-in-england-taking-computing-gcse-plummets-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T23:38:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T21:38:00","slug":"number-of-girls-in-england-taking-computing-gcse-plummets-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/26\/number-of-girls-in-england-taking-computing-gcse-plummets-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of girls in England taking computing GCSE plummets, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction of new syllabus may be reason number of girls taking subject more than halved in eight years, academics say<\/p>\n<p>The number of girls in England studying for a GCSE in computing has more than halved in less than a decade, prompting warnings about the \u201cdominance of men in shaping the modern world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The sharp decline in female participation follows government qualification changes that led to the scrapping of the old information communication technology (ICT) GCSE and its replacement with a new computer science GCSE.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jun\/27\/number-of-girls-in-england-taking-computing-gcse-plummets-study-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b8ce87173efe99d34dccd173e6db997d5b6e669e\/0_0_2750_1650\/master\/2750.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e9784bf9e7aeddc1170ef0ab0160aa96\" title=\"Number of girls in England taking computing GCSE plummets, study finds\" \/>Introduction of new syllabus may be reason number of girls taking subject more than halved in eight years, academics say<br \/>\nThe number of girls in England studying for a GCSE in computing has more than halved in less than a decade, prompting warnings about the \u201cdominance of men in shaping the modern world\u201d.<br \/>\nThe sharp decline in female participation follows government qualification changes that led to the scrapping of the old information communication technology (ICT) GCSE and its replacement with a new computer science GCSE. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction of new syllabus may be reason number of girls taking subject more than halved in eight years, academics say The number of girls in England studying for a GCSE in computing has more than halved in less than a decade, prompting warnings about the \u201cdominance of men in shaping the modern world\u201d. The sharp &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/26\/number-of-girls-in-england-taking-computing-gcse-plummets-study-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Number of girls in England taking computing GCSE plummets, study finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14957"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}