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'Free GCSE resit students from cold functionalism'
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Mar 16, 2019
'Need something relatable? Talk about poo'
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Jan 12, 2019
Why GCSE English language needs a reboot
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English
Jan 5, 2019
Labour demands inquiry into private schools evading GCSE reform
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Dec 30, 2018
Private schools accused of 'cheating system' with 'easier' GCSE tests
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Dec 29, 2018
Why Ofqual won't be rescuing languages
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Nov 26, 2018
'Let ALL students resit GCSE English and maths'
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Nov 10, 2018
Computing GCSE could be paper based due to bad school IT
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Nov 5, 2018
A nerd’s guide to today’s key stage 4 data
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Oct 16, 2018
ASCL launches inquiry into GCSE results as 57% fail to get ‘strong’ pass
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Geoff Barton
Oct 16, 2018
Tate boss: We must not fail children who are UK´s creative future
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Oct 15, 2018
The schools most likely to see GCSE grade swings
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Oct 10, 2018
Memorising poetry: 5 tips to help pupils
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Sep 18, 2018
National Teaching Assistants Day: UK has worst GCSE pupil-per-teacher ratio in Europe
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Sep 14, 2018
Improving GCSE and A level standard setting: A world of learning
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Sep 11, 2018
Pupils forced to make GCSE choices in Year 7
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Sep 7, 2018
GCSEs: 20% of private school entries score a 9
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Sep 1, 2018
GCSE resits: 'Focus on success, not failure'
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Sep 1, 2018
Skills minister on hunt for apprentice but excludes applicants with GCSE grade 4 (a pass)
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Anne Milton
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Aug 30, 2018
The GCSE system is bottom of the class | Letters
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Aug 26, 2018
GCSE Results Day 2018: Students succeed against the odds
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Aug 25, 2018
5 tips for pupils who didn’t get their GCSE grades
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Aug 25, 2018
Teachers, on results day you became #MoreThanGrade
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Aug 24, 2018
Dad told his daughter he'd give her £100 for each A* GCSE (and she got 14)
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Aug 24, 2018
GCSEs included questions pupils had already seen
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Aug 24, 2018
'New linear GCSEs could put girls off Stem'
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Aug 24, 2018
Languages – modern & otherwise – are alive and well in GSA schools
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Aug 24, 2018
GSA girls are great at science GCSE – again
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Aug 24, 2018
Boy campaigning to scrap homework says it made his GCSE results worse
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Aug 24, 2018
Nick Ferrari in stitches as education minister struggles to explain new GCSE grades
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Nick Gibb
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE results: 'Make it a marathon, not a sprint'
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSEs: 'Why do we subject our children to these pointless tests?'
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Aug 23, 2018
Boy told to try his best clinches 14 top GCSEs
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Aug 23, 2018
Top private schools lead the charge in GCSE results
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSEs: Pupils in 'ad-hack' exclusions protest on Tube
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE results – Teens celebrate across the UK after top grades INCREASE despite ‘tougher’ new exams
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE pass rate goes UP - but fewer students get new top '9' grade compared to old A* mark
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE results: Language entries rise for first time since 2013
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE results: Science grades fall despite Ofqual action
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Aug 23, 2018
‘GCSE results don’t define a pupil – or teacher’
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE grades not what you had hoped for? Help is at hand
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE results: Five key points
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE results: Top grades up for first time in seven years
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Aug 23, 2018
Don't overstate the narrowing GCSE gender gap
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE pass rate goes up despite being made tougher with new grade system
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE results reveal north/south divide in England meaning you'll get better results if you live in the south
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE results 2018 - live: Number of students receiving top grades rises for first time in 7 years as boys close gap
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Aug 23, 2018
Boys start to close gap on girls in reformed GCSEs
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Aug 23, 2018
Full impact of Michael Gove’s GCSE exam reforms may not be seen for years
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE resits: Results 'show need for change'
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Aug 23, 2018
Apprenticeships 2018: Your options after GCSEs and how to apply for a course that pays you to study
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE Results 2018: Pupils turn away from design and technology and religious studies
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Aug 23, 2018
Gordon Ramsay's daughter gets top marks in GCSEs - but a 'D' in cookery from him
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Aug 23, 2018
#GCSEResultsDay2018 for England - Sector Response
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE results 2018 – How did boys and girls do in English and maths?
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE results day: A step-by-step guide on what to expect today
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Aug 23, 2018
Government's GCSE resits policy branded a disgrace after less than a quarter of 180,000 retakers pass maths
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE maths resits: 2018 results
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE results day 2018: New ‘tougher’ exams favour boys as gender gap narrowest in seven years
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE results day 2018: What are GCSE grade boundaries? Edexel, OCR, Eduqas, WJEC and more
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Aug 23, 2018
Wales' GCSE results day pass rate dips again in 2018 but top grades awarded are up
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSEs: boys close gap on girls after exams overhaul
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Aug 23, 2018
How tough are GCSEs? Try our exam questions
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Aug 23, 2018
New GCSE grades explained: what is the 9 - 1 system and how does it affect students?
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE Results 2018: The 7 most interesting things we have learned
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE results 2018: Grade 9 makes up over 4% of all results in England
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE resits 2018: maths results are down but English is up
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Aug 23, 2018
Share of students earning top GCSE grades ticks up
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE grade boundaries for Welsh exam board WJEC 2018 - and all the other boards
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE results day: Pass rates up despite major reforms to make exams tougher
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE pupils congratulated by Kirsty Williams
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE results 2018: Academic anxiety greater source of student stress than body image concerns, says former government adviser
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Aug 23, 2018
Share your reaction and experiences on GCSE results day 2018
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE grades explained – what is the 1-9 marking system and how does it work?
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE results: AQA confirms question error and social media leak on science exams
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Aug 23, 2018
Our world-beating new GCSEs are tough but fair to students
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Damian Hinds
Aug 23, 2018
GCSE Results Day - AoC statement
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Aug 23, 2018
Could you pass GCSE science? Try out these exam questions as pupils find out their results
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Aug 23, 2018
GCSE Results
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Aug 23, 2018
Girls' confidence key to tackling STEM gender gap
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Aug 22, 2018
New GCSEs will reveal schools that unfairly help children get better results, private school chief says
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Aug 21, 2018
GCSE results: Are we closing the disadvantage gap?
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Aug 21, 2018
Results dip for 30,000 taking English GCSE early
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Education Datalab
Aug 21, 2018
GCSE results: 'The exam cycle shrank my happiness'
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Aug 21, 2018
GCSE results: how to support disappointed students
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Aug 21, 2018
What is the new GCSE grading system? How the new scale works and why it changed
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Aug 20, 2018
GCSE results day: Major exam reforms have 'ratcheted up pressure' on stressed teenagers
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Aug 20, 2018
Ofqual lowers pass grade for higher tier science
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Aug 20, 2018
Ofqual saves ‘wrongly entered' GCSE pupils from failure
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Aug 20, 2018
Less than 0.2 per cent of GCSE pupils might get 'straight 9s'
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Aug 20, 2018
More GCSE pupils set to get top grades equal to A* when results come out this week despite exams getting harder
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Aug 20, 2018
How to apply for re-marks and appeal A-level results 2018
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Remarking
Aug 19, 2018
The books that I wish were on the GCSE syllabus
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English literature
Aug 11, 2018
GCSE results day 2018: what is the 9 - 1 grading system and why are so many students confused?
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Aug 9, 2018
GCSE Results Day: A step-by-step guide
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Aug 7, 2018
'Exam results can never tell the full story'
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Aug 7, 2018
How you can challenge your GCSE, AS and A-level results if you aren’t happy with them
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Aug 3, 2018
Ofqual: Don’t enter grade four pupils for higher tier GCSE papers
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Jul 14, 2018
‘We need to stop teaching GCSE texts at primary’
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Jul 14, 2018
Family to challenge lack of GCSE in sign language
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Jul 6, 2018
No change on English and maths GCSE resits policy
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Damian Hinds
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Jun 27, 2018
'Reigniting a love of writing can inspire GCSE success'
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Jun 24, 2018
Should schools offer GCSEs or IGCSEs?
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Jun 24, 2018
Private schools shun tough GCSEs
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Jun 24, 2018
Gender gap in computing set to worsen as ICT is scrapped
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Jun 20, 2018
Tougher Maths GCSE is calculated to multiply stress and failure
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Jun 15, 2018
GCSE English: ‘New, exciting’ approaches
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Jun 5, 2018
'I am in awe of GCSE resit students'
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Jun 3, 2018
Why a GCSE In sign language Is so essential
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Jun 1, 2018
Government open to new GCSE in British Sign Language following campaign
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Nick Gibb
May 31, 2018
Gibb ‘open to’ a British sign language GCSE
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May 31, 2018
Applications for maths centres of excellence open now
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May 30, 2018
Students are at breaking point in a broken system | Letters
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May 28, 2018
'All GCSE resit students can improve grades'
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May 27, 2018
'Variation' expected in exam results
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May 24, 2018
Art & Design GCSE entries stay strong in face of EBacc
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May 24, 2018
Colleges' GCSE burden is a scandal
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Nick Gibb
May 19, 2018
The new GCSE exams pile on pressure and kill off passion for learning | Keza MacDonald
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May 18, 2018
“It’s going to affect your life”: A 16-year-old GCSE student on the new, harder exams
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May 17, 2018
Stress and serious anxiety: how the new GCSE is affecting mental health
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May 17, 2018
Employers are confused by GCSE grades
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Apr 20, 2018
'A GCSE grade is a terrible way to measure student progress – we need a new approach'
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Mar 17, 2018
Secret Teacher: the focus on exams is failing GCSE students
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Mar 10, 2018
The conversation is changing – it's time to get behind GCSE resits
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Mar 3, 2018
GCSE options: How to make the options process SEND friendly
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Feb 27, 2018
The assessment reforms take the pressure away from exam preparation and instead ensure concrete subject knowledge
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Feb 26, 2018
In defence of GCSE resits: the policy can work
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Feb 11, 2018
Learning poetry by heart? It's just too tough for snowflake GCSE pupils
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Michael Gove
Feb 3, 2018
Poor pupils in the North are a grade behind
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Jan 28, 2018
Parents in revolt at school's 'no homework' policy as they complain a generation will 'flunk' exams
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Jan 27, 2018
Let GCSE resit students keep access arrangements they had in school
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Jan 21, 2018
How can it be, that in 2018, pupils are having to pay to study music at GCSE?
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Jan 14, 2018
Long read: Should we scrap GCSE mocks?
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Jan 14, 2018
I open the mock exam paper and feel close to laughter at the sheer impossibility of it
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Jan 14, 2018
Students and teachers are cheating more in GCSE and A-level exams
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Jan 7, 2018
GCSE grade changes increase by 52% – mostly due to GCSE English
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Dec 14, 2017
'Schools must say 'no' to out-of-hours revision sessions, for the collective good of the profession'
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Dec 10, 2017
GCSE resits can help students feel like successes – not 'failures'
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Nov 19, 2017
Scrap GCSE resits now before we condemn another 150K young people to failure
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Nov 12, 2017
New GCSE remark rules cause headache for heads
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Nov 10, 2017
Government urged to act over computer science GCSEs
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Nov 10, 2017
Weekend read: Much ado about English examiners, teachers and A-level entries
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Nov 3, 2017
Accelerate' GCSE and A-Level re-mark data to address concerns, urge unions
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Nov 3, 2017
You can’t compare GCSE maths grade boundaries
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Nov 3, 2017
Most disadvantaged students fall behind peers in resit success
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Nov 3, 2017
Sent home
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Oct 4, 2017
Researchers blame Progress 8 for decline in GCSE art subject entries
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Sep 28, 2017
Grade thresholds for A-Level and GCSE examinations are lowered to dodge a dramatic fall in results after Government's new tougher tests for students
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Aug 13, 2017
‘The new GCSEs are setting the less able pupils up to fail – it's totally inappropriate’
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May 21, 2017
Are ‘closed book’ examinations a bad idea?
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Apr 6, 2017
Numerical GCSE grades create confusion
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Jan 13, 2017
Performance of FSM students in key stage 4 under the microscope in Wales
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Jan 11, 2017
Rasch modelling report
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Nov 25, 2016
Food critic Jay Rayner promises to 'help' GCSE students analyse his writing in exam paper
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Nov 15, 2016
White working class boys have lowest GCSE Grades as disadvantaged Bangladeshi, African and Chinese pupils show dramatically improved results
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Nov 10, 2016
'Attainment gap' varies dramatically between ethnic groups, analysis shows
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Nov 10, 2016
I'm 'really excited' about what FE can do for our country, says Justine Greening
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Nov 8, 2016
Proportion of colleges rated inadequate by Ofsted doubles
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Nov 4, 2016
Children who talk about their learning perform better, study finds
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Nov 4, 2016
Sir Michael Wilshaw's speech at the FASNA Autumn Conference
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Nov 2, 2016
Boys trail girls in literacy because they skim read books, report finds
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Oct 24, 2016
When exams are part of a rigged system, financial rewards can work | Deborah Orr
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Oct 22, 2016
Fast-track ECDL IT qualification pass rate soars by 350%
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Oct 14, 2016
Two Blackburn faith schools top charts for GCSE progress
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Oct 13, 2016
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