TUC warns of ‘crisis’ among young people struggling without basic qualifications Tom Cotterill is The Telegraph’s acting defence editor. He has previously written for The Daily Mail and MailOnline. A ...

GCSE exam season isn't far away, and maths students need to make sure they've got this formula in their back pocket. If you're gearing up to take your GCSEs in the next couple of months, or you're a ...

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The government’s curriculum review needs to be bold and cut what’s not working for young people, says Myles McGinley. Plus a letter from Prof Michael Bassey The emerging evidence on exams and mental ...

As over one million students receive their GCSE results, Sky News has found gender and factors linked to deprivation remain troubling predictors of students' performance. Overall GCSE grades are ...

For almost a quarter of pupils taking Maths and English GCSEs this year, it wasn't their first rodeo. Some 23.4% of pupils taking those exams were aged 17 and older - an all-time high. While some of ...

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Maths teacher Daniel Eglin compares the exams and the pressure they put on students sitting GCSEs and IGCSEs Regarding the recent letters comparing the difficulty of GCSEs and IGCSEs, I believe facts ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK needs to overhaul its maths curriculum to prepare young people for the growing needs of computing and ...

The writer is a maths teacher, author of ‘The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers’ and co-host of Maths Appeal podcast If you are paid £9 per hour, what would your hourly rate be if you received a pay rise ...

The GCSE results gap between the south and the rest of England has widened. This year's results reveal London as the highest-performing region, with 72.5% of entries graded as at least 4/C, while the ...