Private and grammar schools today led a fall in the proportion of top GCSE grades this year as the Government tries to get marking back to pre-pandemic levels. At private schools, 46.6 per cent of ...

Pupils at Portsmouth Grammar School have been celebrating the success of their hard work as they open their GCSE results. Annabel Bolton, 16, from Southsea, Hampshire, said she planned to go on to ...

More than 90 per cent of Wisbech Grammar School pupils passed both English and maths. Overall, half of all GCSE grades were A* to B or 9 to 6, with 91 per cent of pupils achieving between 9 and 4 at ...

Basic punctuation and accurate spelling have been abandoned by even the brightest GCSE English students, a series of damning reports has revealed. Examiners have warned about the 'endemic omission of ...

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Private schools gave out more generous GCSE grades during the pandemic than state grammar schools, according to new analysis that will likely exacerbate fears over poorer pupils’ university prospects.

Students across Northern Ireland are celebrating positive GCSE results, with the percentage of top grades remaining above the pre-Covid average but falling compared to last year. Exam bodies are ...

A school has been criticised for making pupils pay to study for a music GCSE. Bingley Grammar School charges students £5 a week to take after school music theory classes. The Incorporated Society of ...

In particular, two sixteen-year-olds at the school were on cloud nine after achieving 11 of the top grade 9s, the equivalent of exceptionally high A*s. Katy Thody, from Burton Leonard, and Yanxi Wang, ...

Vloggers Tina and Malik are off to Frankfurt, Germany to visit their friend Heidi. It’s their first time in the country, so they’re eager to document their journey and showcase it to their many ...

A GRAMMAR school has become the first state school in the country to ditch the GCSE in favour of an international qualification. Year 9 pupils at Bexley Grammar School in Danson Lane, Welling, will ...