Within the UK, computer science suffers from staggeringly high graduate unemployment. Students who graduated in the academic year 2014 to 2015 face a ten-percent unemployment rate .

In 2013, girls accounted for 18.6 percent of computer science exam-takers, Hispanic students 8.1 percent and black students 3.7 percent. Locally, there are signs of both the problem and new interest.

What she would tell another student who was considering computer science: "One of the big things that deter people is that they think, 'I'm not smart enough,' or, 'It's too hard'. What people don ...

Even though teens from low-income families represent 52 percent of high school students, they make up just 36 percent of those taking foundational computer science courses, according to a 2022 ...

Generative AI is making its presence felt across academia, but its impact is most pronounced in computer science. The ...

That’s a clue: English + French/Spanish + computer science is the way forward to be as multilingual as most people need to be in the world ahead. Understanding how computers think helps to beat ...

Computer science is often misunderstood, says teacher Neil Plotnick, but by approaching it as a tool that is vital in many disciplines, both students and teachers can better appreciate its value.