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Secondary students are losing the opportunity to enjoy learning for its own sake.
New research shows what subjects you study at school make a big difference to the type of university you end up attending.
An obsession with coding is turning students off computing.
Crunching the numbers on the latest school performance data.
How the geek effect and a sexist games industry is putting girls off a career in computing.
A unique mentoring project has helped school pupils learn the cultural, professional and personal benefits of languages.
Is there such a thing as a mean marker?
Almost 10% of differences in exam results at age 16 can be explained using individuals’ DNA alone.
There has been a steady decline in students taking D&T.
The government has renewed calls to nationalise exam boards over fears of slipping standards.
After being in decline for a decade, a new policy could kick-start language learning.
From September, all children will have to study five core academic subjects at GCSE. But the CBI thinks the exams should be phased out.
Despite a number of dire warnings, overall GCSE results have not been very volatile. Across the country, the number of students getting A* to C grades has increased slightly, by 0.7% points. On the basis…
Students collecting their GCSE results this summer will now be obliged to participate in education and training until at least the end of the academic year in which they turn 17. From the summer of 2015…
Children’s access to high grades at GCSE is determined by our examination system, which assigns grade limits in some subjects. Known as tiering, this means that some 16-year-olds sit a foundation GCSE…
The number of students entered for a GCSE exam a year early plummeted by 40% this summer. Before 2014, the number of students taking their exams in Year 10 rather than Year 11, particularly in English…
This year’s GCSE results day is predicted to be “chaos” if recent exam reforms cause large fluctuations in students’ grades. Exam boards, teachers and teacher unions are talking of “nervousness”, “turbulence…
As students across the UK and Ireland consider their next steps following publication of this year’s exam results, news outlets have been quick to produce whimsical comparisons to determine the top performing…
In 2013 the former secretary of state for education, Michael Gove, and his minister of state for schools, David Laws, decided to change the A Level qualifications taken by English and Welsh students with…
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