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Gap in top GCSE grades between London and North East widens

Pandemic recovery policies have been “too London-centric”, an educational charity has suggested, after figures showed the gap in top GCSE grades between the capital and the North East has widened. Overall, 28.4% of GCSE entries in London were ...

24 Aug 2023 at 15:50

Minority ethnic artists under-represented in GCSE curriculum at ‘shocking’ level

Minority ethnic artists and their work are significantly under-represented in the school curriculum, a report has suggested. Only 2.3% of all named stand-alone artists referenced in GCSE art and design exam papers are from black or South ...

05 Mar 2024 at 00:01

Exam board to offer digitally-assessed GCSE in computer science

An exam board is to offer a digitally assessed GCSE in computer science for pupils starting their course in 2025, in what it described as a UK first. Jill Duffy, chief executive of OCR, said a pilot of digital exams earlier this year ...

06 Dec 2023 at 08:23

BTec results delay ‘left pupils feeling like second-class citizens’, MP suggests

The chairman of the education committee said issues which saw thousands of BTec pupils not receive their grades on results day left them “feeling like second class citizens.” Robert Halfon, the chairman of the cross-party select ...

12 Oct 2022 at 16:07

Zahawi: Tell parents about what children are learning at school

Parents should be told about what their children are learning in school, the Education Secretary has said. Nadhim Zahawi said parents “should know” what their children are being taught, adding that he recognised parents had ...

04 Jul 2022 at 17:39

Of Mice And Men and To Kill A Mockingbird removed from Welsh GCSE curriculum

Classic American novel Of Mice And Men has been removed from the Welsh GCSE curriculum amid concerns about racism. The new English Language and Literature syllabus issued by the country’s largest exam board WJEC will be ...

23 Dec 2024 at 18:19

Digital exams rollout must be treated with extreme caution, Ofqual chief says

Plans to introduce digital exams should be treated with “extreme caution” until there is certainty that all schools can run assessments fairly, the head of England’s exams regulator has said. Sir Ian Bauckham, chief ...

31 Aug 2024 at 00:01

English GCSE students have ‘too many exams’, exam board says

An exam board has said there are “too many exams”, as it revealed English GCSE students spend more time than almost anywhere else in the world taking tests. The current volume and intensity of exams at GCSE is “too ...

04 Sept 2024 at 00:01

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