A primary school teaching assistant can now pursue her dream of becoming a fully-qualified teacher after passing her maths GCSE at the fourth attempt. Jess Ward, 29, of Thackley, Bradford, achieved a ...

Three words, GCSE maths exam. It’s enough to fill you with dread and transport you back to a time when you’d be sitting in an exam hall frantically trying to recall Pythagoras's theorem and clutching ...

Francis’s review concluded, and DfE agreed, that students should continue to be required to study towards grade 4 GCSE passes ...

The Government will work to cut GCSE exam time by two-and-a-half to three hours for the average student, it has announced, after the curriculum review said current exam volume was “excessive”. The ...

Earlier this week GCSE students were up in arms after coming across an incredibly tough maths question in their paper that had also been found on an A-Level maths website. Stressed-out students took ...

The Government launched a review of curriculum and assessment in schools and colleges just weeks after winning the general ...

Teenagers who fail their maths GCSE are “doomed to a cycle of resits” that has seen some taking the exam eight times, education experts have warned. Pupils are becoming alienated and stuck in a ...

A sixth form student and a maths teacher at a Shropshire school have simultaneously become – novelists. Concord College’s ...

GCSE resits for English and Maths could be scrapped after the pass rate fell to its lowest level in a decade. The current model requires students who fail these two core subjects at GCSE level to ...