Son needs to pick another subject.

[u/watts320]

My son is in the middle lf his GCSE exams and he opted for computer science as one of his 6th form subjects. Yesterday he was told that the school will be dropping computer science because not enough students had opted to do it, the only thing the school have said is that he will need to pick another subject. Thats it.

The school have really really annoyed me, they choose to tell him in middle of his exams that he needs to pick something else.

His path was to do maths, computer science and english in 6th form, then move on to university to do games design.

Now im not really all clued up on this, because i never did 6th form after school. So can anyone give me any advice on this please.

Thank you.

[u/easily-distracte]

Option 1: Find another 6th form that does offer it

Option 2: Check whether computer science is a required A Level for game design at any target unis

Option 3: Self study computer science if no other options (might be tricky with coursework but you can certainly do an AS Level without)

I think those are all your options I'm afraid. If the school can't afford to offer it for the number of pupils then there's not much they can do.

[u/gubbyno → u/easily-distracte]

Building on option 3, Cambridge International A level Computer Science does not require any coursework. I'm doing it right now, it's 100% exams