The decision by Education Secretary Michael Gove will mean that computing will count as a science in the English Baccalaureate for secondary school league tables from January 2014 - alongside physics, chemistry, biology and pupils taking double science.

BBC: Computer science part of English Baccalaureate

Mr Whiting said expansion would double the population of the school to 420 pupils and it would be "trying to get a quart into a pint pot".

BBC: School child