GCSEs

‘Whenever we at the Higher Education Policy Institute delve into the topic [of selection], it leads to furious and unseemly...

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Pupils at Michaela Community School achieved stellar GCSE results in 2019, the first year the school entered pupils for GCSE...

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Yesterday, the Tate group asked the new government to provide sufficient funding for an ‘arts-rich curriculum’.

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‘Scrapping exams at 16 would create a better education system,’ The Times editorial says today.

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The Children’s Commissioner’s briefing entitled ‘ The children leaving school with nothing’ published last week, is inaccurately...

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You would think the Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield would know better. She is, after all, supposed to be the advocate for...

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Sir Kenneth Baker, former education secretary from 1986-89, fired a broadside against GCSE reforms in England in a letter to the...

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Michael Gove’s bid to become the next prime minister began with contemplating the fickle nature of fate. What would have...

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Could it be the Department for Education is using schools minister Nick Gibb as an Aunt Sally?

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Calls for the government to back down on the EBacc are likely to increase following a decision by the Russell Group universities...

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The launch of GCSEs back in 1984 was a ‘quiet revolution’, schools minister Nick Gibb wrote in today’s Times *. But it’s a...

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‘…there is no evidence from the attainment data that these [exam] reforms helped lower-attaining pupils,’ concludes Education Datalab in its...

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‘The parents screamed and swore at me,’ says a Sunday Times headline for an article explaining why the ‘visionary head’ of...

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What should schools concentrate on? Building confidence? Encouraging ‘grit’ and resilience? Developing ‘character’? Focusing on...

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GCSEs and A levels should be replaced with graduation at 18, Robert Halfon, chair of the Education Select Committee, is expected...

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What a difference a word makes. The accepted truth since 2010 is that results in the three-yearly OECD PISA tests for England...

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Secondary schools which have been less than good for ten years or more tend to be those with a higher proportion of white...

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‘Pupils from the poorest families are TWICE as likely to get into Oxbridge if they attend a grammar school, report finds,’ says...

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