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Exams are the currency of the education marketplace.
Our research found that teacher assessments and exam scores match closely for maths, English and science.
Why a recent report, backed by university staff, argues that institutions should start offering students places after they’ve received their A-level results.
Research shows that 80% of medical students come from just 20% of the UK’s secondary schools.
Beat exam stress with these top tips.
Does the International Baccalaureate make for a better rounded education for students?
An expert gives her top tips for coping with exam stress and nerves.
It was widely reported boys beat girls in A-level results, but my analysis shows this isn’t actually the case.
Not everyone will be celebrating this GCSE results day.
Clearing advice from the experts.
New research shows what subjects you study at school make a big difference to the type of university you end up attending.
With the refugee crisis, Brexit, and the rise of populist extremism, we must defend the teaching of anthropology. And in doing so, we might expand and rethink ideas of “the humanities”.
‘Posh white girls’ are unjustifiably taking the brunt of reports of the last art history A-level but casualties are all those the exam board had been moving to reach out to.
Is there such a thing as a mean marker?
If you happen to grow up in the south of England, you are more likely to actually study A-levels, and will probably end up with better results than if you go to school and study in the north.
Does the university clearing system work?
Why we should lament the sharp drop in the number of teenagers taking the one-year qualifications.
Here’s how meditation can help make some of those big life decisions a little more easy to handle.
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