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London secondary school pupils 'unable to read or write' thanks to legacy of Covid, expert warns

The legacy of the Covid school shutdowns will still be being felt in 2030 report warns

Evening Standard

Pupils in England ‘facing worst exam results in decades’ after Covid closures

GCSE results in key subjects to steadily worsen until 2030, predicts research that blames failure to tackle impact of schools lockdown

The Guardian - UK

Let’s end the annual torture of GCSE resits – and give students qualifications they’ll actually use

Compulsory maths and English retakes speak of a system that ignores pupils’ real talents. But hope is on the horizon, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

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Parliamentary punch-ups, painting mishaps and red carpet insults – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

Sporting leaders, racing waiters and lots of rescued cats – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

Brand new animals, awkward moments and dreadful movie awards – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

Students suspended even for short spells fare worse at GCSEs, study finds

Charity says findings from schools in England show need for early intervention and fewer exclusions

The Guardian - UK

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YouTube sensation Lucia Keskin: ‘It’s my worst nightmare to be called an influencer’

She found fame online opening her GCSE results and ripping off Friends. Now the 23-year-old is shaking up sitcom with Things You Should Have Done, a pitch-black BBC show making fun of ‘horrible people, stupid people’

The Guardian - UK

Less than 3% of artists named in GCSE art exams are Black or south Asian, study finds

Analysis across four exam boards in England reveals white artists comprise 91.6% of all mentions

The Guardian - UK

‘Parents didn’t want their kids to be here’: inside the troubled London school that stopped excluding pupils and restored calm

Headteacher Alan Streeter has turned around Beacon High School, a deprived secondary with a reputation for violence and 300 suspensions a year

The Guardian - UK

Taxed snacks, sweary robots and a princess with six legs – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

Exam board to offer pupils on-screen English GCSEs by next summer

Up to 125,000 UK students will have the option to take Edexcel’s GCSE English language and English literature exams on-screen for the first time.

The Independent UK

The best Christmas gift I could have got

Brief letters: GCSE in sign language | Early daffodils | Michelle Mone | Banksy’s road sign | Blind date bliss

The Guardian - UK

British Sign Language to be introduced in schools as GCSE from 2025

The subject will be available on the syllabus from September 2025

Evening Standard

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Evening Standard

Is sign language universal? British version to be offered as a GCSE subject

Pupils who study sign language will reportedly learn more than 750 signs from September 2025

The Guardian - UK

Record 350,000 parents in England fined over term-time holidays with children

DfE data also shows record cases of pupils caught cheating while sitting A-level and GCSE exams

The Guardian - UK

Peers call for urgent overhaul of secondary education in England

Lords report says there is too much learning by rote and many key Tory changes should be reversed

The Independent UK

GCSE maths and science pupils in England to get Covid exam aids this summer

The Department for Education has asked Ofqual to make arrangements to extend formulae and equation sheets for GCSE exams this year.

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The Guardian - UK

Schools in England block lessons on Middle East over fears of bias claims

Teachers say pupils losing out on learning about history of Israel-Palestine conflict due to worries about ‘bad publicity’

The Conversation

GCSE and Higher results show worsening gap between richer and poorer pupils: pandemic assessment shows we should reconsider exams

The difference in average GCSE English and maths results between poorer and richer pupils – the so-called “attainment gap” – is the largest in England in over a decade, according to a recent government analysis.

The Independent UK

Pupils absent from class during exam years ‘more likely to receive worse GCSEs’

More than a third of pupils in England were persistently or severely absent in either Year 10 or Year 11 in 2020/21 and 2021/22, analysis found.

The Guardian - UK

The history men in Frankland prison who got a GCSE pass

Brief letters: Teaching in jail | Sir Bobby Charlton | Barber shops | Mullet threat | John Cleese

The Guardian - UK

High-risk prisoners sit GCSE English – and many outperform peers on outside

Inmates at HMP Frankland in County Durham, some of ‘hardest to reach people in society’, did course in a year with no internet access

The Conversation

Most secondary schools don't have to teach the national curriculum. It should be revised and restored – or discarded

Each year, when new PGCE students arrive at the University of Bristol to start their journey towards becoming English teachers, I ask them to study the national curriculum. This is the statutory document prescribing what children aged from five to 16 are taught at school.

The Guardian - UK

Pens away, laptops open – pupils told to type, not write, GCSE exam answers

Examining board AQA says parts of Italian and Polish courses will be assessed digitally in 2026

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