A significant number of teenagers who did not secure a pass in their maths and English GCSEs are being consigned to a “remorseless treadmill” of “demotivating” resits, headteachers’ unions have warned ...

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 government’s policy of making students resit maths and English GCSEs is “not fit for purpose”, education leaders have warned. Politicians have been urged to “rethink” how young people are ...

GCSE examiners have been accused of being "masochists" for setting a maths question that students claimed was "impossible". Thousands of 16-year-olds across England sat the exam last week but found ...

Thorns Collegiate Academy celebrates the achievements of its Year 11 students as they receive their much-anticipated GCSE results, celebrating their hard work with friends, family and teachers as they ...

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

It comes as Action for Children today revealed young people referred to social care at any point in their childhood were twice as likely to fail the subjects than their peers. The charity said this is ...

Kamal Askani received a grade 7 in his higher maths GCSE A 72-year-old grandfather has passed his higher maths GCSE to show his grandchildren that "you are never too old to learn". After retiring from ...

With GCSE time fast approaching, it's emerged that 42 per cent of pupils don't believe their parents could successfully sit their exams, while three out of 10 students claim their parents don't tend ...

A pupil was stripped of his maths GCSE after a question he found online while revising appeared on his exam paper. Emil Bednarski, 17, who studies at Kensington Aldridge Academy, had asked a teacher ...

For those lucky enough to be blessed with a natural aptitude for numbers, maths may well have been a very enjoyable subject indeed. Unfortunately, for those of us keener on the humanities, the very ...