More than a third of schools are failing pupils
11.31 Wed Nov 19 2008
More than a third of schools are failing pupils a report has shown linking social deprivation with poor quality services.
Exams regulator approves 181 GCSEs
09.55 Fri Aug 29 2008
England's new exams regulator Ofqual has approved 181 GCSEs covering 60 different subjects for teaching from 2009.
Record GCSE results announced
18.58 Thu Aug 21 2008
Britain's teenagers have notched up record GCSE results, with one in five exams awarded top grades.
Two million leave school without 'good' GCSEs
11.11 Wed Aug 20 2008
Almost two million teenagers have left school without gaining a single good GCSE.
Exam swearing can earn marks
13.11 Mon Jun 30 2008
Students who write obscenities in their GCSE English exams can still be awarded marks, a chief examiner has said.
Answers printed on GCSE exam papers
12.27 Thu May 22 2008
Pupils sat GCSE exams with some of the answers printed on the papers, it has emerged.
Oral tests look set to be dropped
14.06 Sun Feb 17 2008
Oral tests look set to be dropped from GCSE exams on the basis they are "too stressful".
GCSE grades hit record high
16.51 Thu Aug 23 2007
A record number of pupils have been awarded top A and A* GCSE grades.
MPs back 'finance' GCSE
12.13 Wed Jun 20 2007
Proposals for the introduction of a personal finance GCSE and A-Level has received cross-party support in Parliament.
Calls for exam shake-up
15.30 Sun Jun 10 2007
A teaching union has backed calls for a massive overhaul of testing in schools for under-16s.
Hopes tagging can beat exam cheats
07.49 Fri May 11 2007
An exam board is to use electronic tagging devices and a computer-based marking system in an effort to combat cheating in exams.
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