This is a big day for many young people, as they receive their official GCSE results. For the second year running, Covid disruption means that formal exams have not been used to determine their grades ...

It comes as Action for Children today revealed young people referred to social care at any point in their childhood were twice as likely to fail the subjects than their peers. The charity said this is ...

Tens of thousands more 16-year-olds than last year will need to resit their English and maths GCSE exams. More than 167,000 students in England received grade 3 or lower on their maths paper, about 21 ...