High-risk prisoners sit GCSE English – and many… Prisoners serving long sentences at one of the UK’s most secure jails have sat GCSE English and outperformed many…
Languages and creative arts losing favour with… Languages and the creative arts are falling out of favour among GCSE and A-level students, who are increasingly…
Books by female authors studied by just 2% of… Only 2% of GCSE students study a book written by a female author, according to research by campaigners who are…
Surge in GCSE and A-level candidates penalised… This year’s A-level and GCSE exams had a surge in the number of students penalised for potential cheating or…
GCSE grades gap for disadvantaged pupils in… The gap in GCSE grades between disadvantaged pupils and their peers is the widest in a decade after this summer’s…
England’s A-level and GCSE grades to fall to… A-level and GCSE grades awarded in 2023 will be lower on average than this summer, the Department for Education has…
How geography GCSE weathered storm of curriculum… Less than 10 years ago, Michael Gove, then the education secretary, was defeated in his plan to remove climate…
‘We were ready’: Birmingham academy celebrates… When Oscar dos Santos opened his GCSE results at Birmingham’s City academy, he ran whooping through the school…
Fall in England’s GCSE grades signals a return… This summer’s GCSE results are the first from examinations in three years. Results are significantly lower than…
‘I was doing it for fun’: man, 92, could be… A 92-year-old man could be the oldest person in Britain to ever pass a GCSE exam after receiving the highest…