The “chronic” underperformance of boys at GCSE level should be treated as a “major issue”, a leading education expert has warned. Professor Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and ...

Hundreds of thousands of pupils across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland are poised to discover their A-level and GCSE results. A-level and AS-level results will be released on 14 August. On the ...

There are set to be big changes to A-levels, AS-levels and GCSEs in Northern Ireland. The Education Minister Paul Givan has said that pupils are being "over-tested" in school. His department is ...

A number of GCSE and A-level exams could be taken on screens by 2030 under new proposals from the exams watchdog. Proposals in a consultation launched on Thursday could see GCSEs in smaller-entry ...

There was elation for many of the more than 500,000 students who opened their GCSE results yesterday, with one in five scooping top marks. The proportion getting a grade 7 – the equivalent of the old ...

Without significant intervention, the Lit in Colour initiative warns it will be 2115 before 38 per cent of pupils – mirroring ...

Seventeen-year-old Lily said she liked doing AS-levels and it had taken the pressure off her A-levels [BBC] There are set to be big changes to A-levels, AS-levels and GCSEs in Northern Ireland. The ...