The number of pupils sitting resits this year was at an all-time high For almost a quarter of pupils taking Maths and English GCSEs this year, it wasn't their first rodeo. Some 23.4% of pupils taking ...

Recommendations to help young people make better progress post-16 will be reflected in the coming skills white paper, Professor Becky Francis said.

Parents are up in arms over a high school's decision regarding GCSEs, with one parent revealing their son has been pulled from his history class in Year 11 to make room for additional maths lessons.

Think you've got what it takes? Give our quiz a try -Credit:Photo by Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images It's an argument that rears its head every year - are GCSEs getting easier or harder?

On August 15 2024, over 107,400 young people in the UK nervously scanned their results, looking for their grade in A-level mathematics. It is the first time more than 100,000 people have taken any ...

A maths teacher has been banned from the profession after filming videos up pupils' skirts. Stuart Norris recorded footage of ...

Exam season is under way and for school-leavers across the county, that means the challenge of GCSEs. In 2006, we reported that teenager Rhiannon Monckton, 15, who was taking GCSEs in maths, physics ...

A maths whizzkid has become one of the youngest people ever to bag an A* GCSE grade - nine years earlier than most students take their exams. Seven-year-old Thomas Barnes is believed to be amongst the ...

The number of girls choosing to take GCSE computing has risen for the second year in a row after a few years of falling numbers. It comes as the number of overall students choosing to take the subject ...

The number of female students choosing to sit GCSE computing in the UK saw a year-on-year drop in 2021. Female candidate numbers dropped from 16,919 in 2020 to 16,549 this year, despite the overall ...

For almost a quarter of pupils taking Maths and English GCSEs this year, it wasn't their first rodeo. Some 23.4% of pupils taking those exams were aged 17 and older - an all-time high. While some of ...