The Government will aim to reduce GCSE exam time by approximately two-and-a-half to three hours for typical pupils, following a curriculum review which found the current volume of testing to be ...

In the moments before Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, he fielded a question about mass shooters from mathematics student Hunter Kozak. “It’s a tragedy and it’s ...

Thousands of pupils all over Surrey picked up their GCSE results today (August 21). Just one week after their peers got their A-level grades, it was now the turn of Year 11 pupils to find out how they ...

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The Government’s policy of making students resit maths and English GCSEs is “not fit for purpose” and it can undermine young people’s “confidence and motivation”, education leaders have warned.

A primary school pupil has got top grades in GCSE maths after taking the exams five years early. Harry Clark, 11, took higher maths and further maths GCSEs this year – having previously gained a GCSE ...

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Education Minister Paul Givan has congratulated pupils from Northern Ireland after they secured the top GCSE results in the UK. The provisional results show that 31.6% of students here achieved at ...

It is a nervous time of year for students who took their exams earlier this summer. A level results were dispatched last week and now it is the turn of GCSE students. Students in Wales, England, and ...

The West African Examination Council, WAEC, is the target of outrage and criticisms following the release of the May/June 2025 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, WASSCE. The ...