{"id":20662,"date":"2019-09-02T10:07:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T10:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=20662"},"modified":"2019-09-02T10:07:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T10:07:32","slug":"more-females-are-taking-computing-gcses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/more-females-are-taking-computing-gcses\/","title":{"rendered":"More females are taking computing GCSE exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>According to recent statistics released by the Joint Council for Qualifications (<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcq.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>JCQ<\/b><\/a><b>), more females are taking computing GCSEs and information technology (IT).\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The computing exam has been enjoying a significant rise in popularity over the past several years, with an increase in the number of participants of more than seven percent (7.2%) just this year. <\/span><b>What is more impressive, however, is the fact that more females are taking GCSEs in computing &#8211; an increase by more than fourteen percent (14%) was recorded this year.<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While there is a significant increase in female test-takers, they still represent only about twenty-one percent (21.4%) of all participants in GCSEs in computing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More females are taking computing GCSEs<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>The fact that more females are taking computing is not surprising, because technology is entering virtually every industry in the world.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Technological advancements are being introduced on a daily basis, and there is a hunger for capable young computer specialists on the market.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>More female students are taking up computing as interest and possible career path as they begin to realize the importance technology will have in the future.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Even nowadays, more and more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/spotlight-digital-education-for-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digital developments are entering the educational world<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Thankfully, the tech industry is welcoming enough, and female programers and computer specialists are not regarded as ones of lower skill.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is empowering that more young girls are deciding to enter this industry, and to get professional qualifications in the sphere.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to industry specialists, the government has to make a conscious effort to attract both boys and girls to this kind of subject. Just like with science and mathematics, there are still more boys interested than girls.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to recent statistics released by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), more females are taking computing GCSEs and information technology (IT).\u00a0 The computing exam has been enjoying a significant rise in popularity over the past several years, with an increase in the number of participants of more than seven percent (7.2%) just this year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}