With pupils resitting Maths and English GCSEs at an all-time high, and fewer than a fifth of those passing, is the system ...

The Education Secretary said students showed “remarkable resilience” despite the disruption to their education ...

The Government is considering scrapping compulsory English and maths resits at GCSE level. Pupils who fail these subjects at ...

The gender gap in pass rates has flipped in post-16 GCSE maths. This year, 16.4 per cent of females achieved a grade 4 or above – falling from 18.2 per cent in 2024. Meanwhile, 17.8 per cent of males ...

The “chronic” underperformance of boys at GCSE level should be treated as a “major issue”, a leading education expert has ...

Teenagers who moved from primary to secondary school in the middle of the pandemic are waking up to their GCSE results, with students in the West Midlands among the first to get their results using an ...