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Julie Leigh, Co-ordinating Adviser for ICT, shares with us some data identifying time allocation in ICT at Key Stages 3 and 4

Each year John Evans, Science Adviser, collates useful data from secondary schools that includes: class size, timetable and curriculum data. Below I have extracted the ICT data to allow schools to compare their department allocations.
At KS3 33 out of 34 schools are delivering ICT as a discrete subject in years 7
and 9. In year 7 and 9, on average, ICT receives less time allocation than all subjects except: PSE, Citizenship, Dance and Drama. Will this time allocation increase as a result of the higher profile of ICT KS3 results from the onscreen test in 2008?

Yr Group

No: of Schools

Avg. time in minutes

Maximum time

Minimum time

Course

Avg. class size

Max Class size

Min class size

  
 

Yr 7

33

60

150

23

KS3

26

30

17

  

Yr 8

33

59

150

30

KS3

26

30

17

  

Yr 9

33

55

90

24

KS3

26

33

18

  

Yr 10

14

69

150

30

Short GCSE

21

27

10

  

Yr 10

17

133

150

60

Full GCSE

22

27

13

  

Yr 10

3

239

300

148

Applied

18

24

12

  

Yr 10

1

150

150

150

AiDA

17

17

17

  

Yr 10

2

150

180

120

CiDA

23

24

22

  

Yr 10

6

210

360

150

DiDA

19

23

11

  

Yr 11

15

63

150

30

Short GCSE

22

26

16

  

Yr 11

18

145

210

60

Full GCSE

20

29

14

  

Yr 11

5

252

300

150

Applied

17

20

12

  

Yr 11

0

-

-

-

AiDA

-

-

-

  

Yr 11

1

150

150

150

CiDA

22

22

22

  

Yr 11

0

-

-

-

DiDA

-

-

-

  

Yr 12

7

269

300

240

Comp Studies

 

 

 

  

Yr 12

16

252

300

200

IT

 

 

 

  

In KS4, three schools offer ECDL in Year 10 and two schools CLAIT. In Year 12 just over 200 male students take up Information Technology in comparison to less than 90 females, there is a similar gender gap for Computer Studies/Computing where there are twice as many male as female students.