An estimated 60,000 GCSE pupils could face the gruelling task of having to resit their English and maths exams as hundreds of thousands fewer top grades were handed out this year following efforts to ...

GCSE resits for English and Maths could be scrapped amid the pass rate falling to its lowest level in a decade. The current model requires students who fail these two core subjects at GCSE level to ...

In 2024, a brand new suite of Made-for-Wales GCSEs were launched, which will become available for teaching in September 2025, so if you're choosing your GCSE Options from 2025 onwards, you'll be one ...

Hundreds of thousands of GCSE students in England, Northern Ireland and Wales have received their grades. The pass rate has fallen slightly compared with 2024, with 67.4% of all grades in England, ...

Tory education spokesman Damian Green has called for "an immediate, quick and fully independent inquiry" into remarks by a former chief maths examiner about this year's GCSE results. The shadow ...

After revising long and hard for their exams over the past couple of months, British teenagers have finally received their GCSE results today. Year 11's results day makes for a tense spectacle for ...

University of Leeds provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Anger at the way creative subjects for teenagers seem to have been sidelined by a new focus on core subjects at GCSE ...

The introduction of new maths AS and A-levels will be delayed by a year until September 2017, the government says. The move follows fears students would struggle to bridge the gap between the current ...