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Education committee chair calls for GCSEs to be scrapped
MP Robert Halfon believes education should be altered to help young people thrive in an increasingly automated and digital age.
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GCSE exam changes: Everything you need to know
The reforms are the biggest shake-up of the exam system for a generation. Here's what's changed.
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GCSE results to be revealed
It's GCSE results day - but will girls continue to out-perform boys this year?
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'Real-world maths' trial aims to boost pupils' grades
Most students do badly in financial literacy questions, but a new education project aims to equip them with 'practical' maths skills.
Read the full story ›Awards body: 'Little change in this year's GCSE results'
The head of the Joint Council for Qualifications has said there is very little change in this year's GCSE results but education policies are continuing to impact on entry patterns and results.
At a national level there is very little change in this year's results but we do see educational policies continuing to have an effect on entry patterns and results at a subject level. This is particularly the case in English, mathematics and the sciences.
GCSEs: More achieve grade C or above but top grades fall
The proportion of GCSEs awarded at least a C grade has risen again this year, but top grades have fallen for the fourth year in a row, according to official figures.
They also reveal:
- In total, almost seven in 10 (69%) entries were awarded A*-C, up 0.2 percentage points on 2014.
- There was a 0.1% point drop in A* grades - the fourth year running that there has been a fall - with 6.6% of entries given the highest mark this year.
- 73.1% of girls' entries awarded at least a C grade, compared to 64.7% of boys'.
- The numbers of students taking languages at GCSE has fallen.Entries for French were down 6.2%, German entries were down 9.2% and Spanish down 2.4%. But grades for languages have improved.
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GCSE maths SHOULD be challenging, argues Rachel Riley
Countdown's resident maths whizz explains THAT maths problem - and reveals why she believes it was right to include it in the GCSE exam.
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#Edexcelmaths: Students mock their GCSE exam on Twitter
Thousands of GCSE students took their Edexcel maths exam this morning and it seems to have been a bit of a challenge for many of them...
Read the full story ›Gove denies banning US authors from GCSE syllabus
Education Secretary Michael Gove has hit back at "culture warriors" who he says have wrongly accused him of banning modern American novels from the GSCE syllabus.
Responding in an article for the Daily Telegraph, Mr Gove denied that he had banned American authors in general or John Steinbeck's 1937 novella Of Mice And Men in particular.
Commenting on exam board OCR's Paul Dodd's claim, the former journalist replied that he had "read and loved" Of Mice And Men and To Kill A Mockingbird as a child.
"Just because one chap at one exam board claimed I didn't like Of Mice And Men, the myth took hold that it - and every other pesky American author - had been banned," he said.
Teaching group slams English syllabus 'out of the 1940s'
An organisation representing English teachers has launched a scathing attack on the new GCSE curriculum, claiming it will put teenagers off studying literature.
The new syllabus will not include several classic American works, including John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, reportedly at the insistence of the Education Secretary, Michael Gove.
The chair of the National Association for the Teaching of English, Bethan Marshall, told the Sunday Times: “It’s a syllabus out of the 1940s and rumour has it Michael Gove, who read literature, designed it himself. Schools will be incredibly depressed when they see it."
She argued that studying 19th century British works would deter students from continuing with the subject, saying: "Kids will be put off doing A-level literature by this. Many teenagers will think that being made to read Dickens aged 16 is just tedious. This will just grind children down.”