Browsing: GCSE

The requirement that children who fail GCSE maths and English must repeatedly resit the exams is too inflexible and needs to be overhauled, according to Becky…

Robbie MeredithEducation and arts correspondent, BBC News NIBBCSeventeen-year-old Lily said she liked doing AS-levels and it had taken the pressure off her A-levelsThere are set to…

For years, rigid rules and a shocking failure rate in compulsory GCSE retakes have been one of the exam system’s dirty secrets. At last this dire…

Mia Headington found out she had dyslexia the day before her first GCSE exam, but the diagnosis didn’t faze her. Opening her results envelope on Thursday…

Despite a once bitter rivalry that dates to before the Spanish Armada in 1588, pupils in England are studying español in greater numbers than ever before,…

Pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have overcome the obstacles placed in their way by the Covid pandemic to a striking degree. The cohort who…

This year’s GCSE results in England delivered something that teachers and policymakers had craved in recent years: stability, at least for most 16-year-olds.Covid and its aftermath…

The Data Journalism TeamBBC VerifyPAMore than 600,000 teenagers have been opening GCSE and other Level 2 results on Thursday.Most have just finished Year 11, marking the…

Pupils in England who were thought to have been among the worst affected by Covid have bounced back in their GCSE results, with more achieving top…

Overall rise in grades; gap between boys and girls narrows in GCSE resultsThere has been an overall rise in grades among 16-year-olds taking GCSEs and the…