To be furious about this?

Maths and CS is one of the most common A Level combinations! Most unis requires maths to study Computer science. Maths,physics and CS with FM is probably the most common and popular pathway to Computer Science at uni.

Concerned there are a few posters that do not see that these go hand in hand and think this is acceptable and that you're the problem!

OP are you genuinely sure there has not been an almighty misunderstanding and she can study both. Absolutely ludicrous these cannot be studied together and as the mother of a uni student studying joint maths and CS I'd be livid if this had happened at my YP sixth form.

Not true! People I know who did Computer Science at a very good uni never did Maths beyond GCSE.
Without googling, can't say it's true for all unis, but looking at a couple of good unis, you don't need maths.
OP, either she agrees to this, or try other colleges/schools. There should be other places that let her pick what she wants.

That's not true. You can do comp sci at uni without maths. I know of a student going to do just that.

surely it’s not uncommon? And I wouldn’t necessarily think of CS and Maths as co-a levels, Physics and Math yes. We had blocks to choose from to prevent this.

I would suggest she starts looking at Apprenticeship vacancies now if she can't do what she wants at A level anyway.
If she's lucky the right kind of opportunity will come up and she can get started as they don't all run according to the academic year. If nothing else she will get a feel for the vacancies, what they look for, which companies recruit etc.

Can she not stay at school?

This should have been worked out by the college. My eldests school they have it sorted for a science or humanities pathway when it comes to Highers.

We do also have the luxury though that they can take a bus 3miles to the next school.

Can she do an online A level?

Exactly OP and I'd be pissed off too. Short-sightedness.

I wonder if this has happened at this college before? My friend's school started managing some lists using AI last year and it caused loads of issues.

OP, people are giving you solutions but you cannot seem to accept it, it doesn't really matter size of the college - the facts are the college is going ahead with this. Speaking to the college probably won't change anything, so your daughter either accepts the change in subject or you can call other colleges as PP have said.
If she sticks with it, you need to fully support her to not make the decision worse.
I also agree doing further maths could be a good option if she wants to do an IT apprenticeship after.
I am sorry this is happening to your daughter but you need to exhaust other options if she is adamant about doing computer science.

I agree this is appalling, OP.

If DD does well she will have excellent options with Physics and a variety of third choices. However there are Schools of Computer Science that now like to see CS A level. For example, Imperial College came tops in the Times 2027 league table; whilst Maths is the only requires subject, the three most highly recommended other subjects are Physics, FM and CS. (There is much longer group of recommended subjects, so no one should panic.)

Having said that I agree with everyone emphasising that Maths is the key. Doing as well as possible in Maths will open many doors in CS. The CS A level is not necessary. Still, this was a strikingly regrettable conflict.

Best wishes to DD.

I used to work at a school that had a sixth form,

sure you know how many applicants but lots don’t get the grades or change their minds or whatever.

there’s a big gap between applicants and who turns up on the 1st Sept

In that case I’d be very surprised if they didn’t have more than one a level maths class.

or are not all the students doing a levels?

ask if she can swop to a different maths class.

Oh right.

Yes they usually look for maths, comp science/ICT and physics or other stem subject.

Is there an ICT qualification she could do?

That’s absolutely nuts, OP. Of all the things to timetable together - I could possibly understand if it was a v small school but a huge college?!

The college should absolutely have known what would be blocked together at the application stage. It's appalling disorganisation that they didn't. They really should organise it so she can do it. If they won't, is there any possibility of doing two a-levels at that college and finding somewhere she could do the third A-level on-line?

The timetabling will be prioritising more popular combinations unfortunately.

She will be fine with maths, physics and chemistry, plus computer work in her own time. There will be free online modules she can take - I’d get her to research these.

Those are odd subjects to clash. Could she apply to another college/6th form where they wouldn't?

Exactly the same happened to my Daughter last year, but we knew there were risks of a clash. She's doing Maths, Physics and Philosophy with Ethics. It's frustrating, I agree. I'd phone around different colleges asap.

Then you need to decide what's more important, the travel time/uniform or the A level.

My soon to be year 13 is doing NONE of the subjects he applied to and was accepted to study.
I was only thinking of the benefits of a smaller setting - smaller class sizes, shorter travel times.
I didn't consider that they literally had no capacity to cope with teachers leaving or being on long-term absence. He feels very let down.

Just because they both have the word English in them, does not mean that English language and English literature are nearly the same subject. Sigh.

There are always things that will clash, it's just unfortunate that this combination is one that impacts your DD. It also depends on staff availablity and how they have been timetabled.

Yeah this sort of thing is quite common especially at the smaller settings.

a college that has a couple of thousand can generally offer free choice and it’s ok (although even then there will often be minimum numbers for some less popular courses - Latin, Russian, that sort of thing).

sometimes if a course doesn’t get enough students it’ll be cancelled on literally the first day of term and students can swop,

you don’t need computer science a level to do it at uni so most places don’t consider it an important a level,

I’m surprised they don’t have more then one maths class though.