Proposals include shortening length of GCSE exams, a new diagnostic test in maths and English, and expanding RE Curriculum ‘should focus less on exams and more on life skills’ The year-long curriculum ...

Thousands of students across Greater Manchester - and the rest of England and Wales - will find out their GCSE results today. Across the country, 15 and 16-year-olds who sat their exams in May and ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Today’s GCSE results reveal that music has one of the highest increases in uptake, of any subject in 2025. More than 38,000 students took GCSE music in 2025, an increase of 6.1% compared to 2024. In ...

The number of girls choosing to take a GCSE in computer science fell this year, breaking a consistent growth streak. In 2025, the number of girls taking computing at GCSE level dropped to 20,708, down ...

Top grades for GCSE results in Wales have risen very slightly along with all results in the second "normal" exam year since pandemic disruption with an overall pass rate A* to G of 96.9%. Just under ...

GCSE results day 2025 has seen the number of top grades rise from last year. However, fewer entries scored a standard pass, today's statistics show. Students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland ...

The gap in GCSE results between boys and girls is now at its narrowest point this century. Hundreds of thousands of pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have received their GCSE results today ...

Education Minister Paul Givan has congratulated pupils from Northern Ireland after they secured the top GCSE results in the UK. The provisional results show that 31.6% of students here achieved at ...

Children’s commissioner joins Kyiv in asking DfE to create new qualification to cope with ‘immense upheaval’ of fleeing war The children’s commissioner has joined Kyiv in lobbying the UK government to ...