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Department for Education confirms launch of natural history GCSE

Campaigners have been calling for the qualification for years but plan stalled despite a curriculum being drawn up

The Guardian - UK

GCSEs harm our young people. Ministers should have the guts to abolish them – and start again

A report out this week highlights how destructive the cult of the exam is in Britain’s schools. But it doesn’t go far enough, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Education Secretary says London’s falling birth rate brings ‘opportunities to think creatively’

Bridget Phillipson also tells the Standard that Government will ‘look at the evidence’ from Sir Sadiq Khan’s free school meal programme

Evening Standard

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Launch natural history GCSE in England now, campaigners urge Labour

Environmentalists say new course could be delayed until 2030 because it is viewed as Conservative party initiative

The Guardian - UK

Would you drop Of Mice and Men from the exam syllabus? The answer isn’t black and white

The book will no longer be studied at GCSE in Wales because many find the racial slurs upsetting. That’s culture war fodder, but it shouldn’t be, says author and broadcaster Nels Abbey

The Guardian - UK

Starmer’s VAT hike will leave some GCSE students without a school by January, warns council

A council has warned that children withdrawn from independent schools because of the VAT hike in January will not be found places at state schools in the county

The Independent UK

‘Why should I study Russian?’ Ukraine lobbies UK to introduce Ukrainian GCSE

About 34,000 Ukrainian children have fled to UK since Russian invasion – yet are unable to study their mother tongue

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Of Mice And Men and To Kill A Mockingbird removed from Welsh GCSE curriculum

Both American classics have been criticised for their inclusion of racial slurs.

Evening Standard

Natural history GCSE on hold as qualification seen as ‘Tory initiative’, claims campaigner

New GCSE was announced under previous government in 2022 but now ‘sitting in limbo’, says Mary Colwell, one of its architects

The Guardian - UK

Primary school pupils should not have to sit ‘high-pressure’ tests – union

The current curriculum and assessment system is ‘outdated and unfit’, the leader of the largest education union in the UK has said.

Evening Standard

Government should review uninspiring and ‘mechanistic’ GCSE English – exam board

The Department for Education consultation into a review of curriculum and assessment closes this week.

The Independent UK

‘It was a really lonely time’: Alison Moyet and Dave Stewart on making Is This Love?

‘The lyrics reflect the fact that I was in quite a dark place – but subverting it all, in a GCSE English kind of way’

The Guardian - UK

Experts raise concerns over ‘unreliable’ marking of GCSE English

Some high-achieving pupils in England received lower than expected grades that rose after being re-marked

The Guardian - UK

IGCSE maths preparation is easier than GCSE

Letter: Maths teacher Daniel Eglin compares the exams and the pressure they put on students sitting GCSEs and GCSEs

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There is no evidence that GCSEs are harder than IGCSEs

Letters: There are many reasons to be sceptical about private schools, but this is not one of them, writes Dr Nick Smith

The Guardian - UK

Where are writers of colour in the school curriculum?

Letters: Thishani Wijesinghe responds to an article by Nell Frizzell about the books she read at school and notes a lack of diversity

The Independent UK

Calls for major change to GCSEs after exam warning

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has commissioned a Government review into curriculum and assessment

The Guardian - UK

The real unfairness and scandal of GCSE exams

Letters: Readers including Corinna Jones and Mary Gildea respond to articles about last week’s GCSE results

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The Observer view on the attainment gap in England’s GCSE results

Labour must address the widening differences in grades between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and their more affluent peers

The Guardian - UK

England’s GCSE results show ingrained social and regional inequality post-Covid

Analysis of grades shows disparities also conceal enormous variations in performance within each region

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m really proud’: GCSE pupils tell of relief at results after Covid disruption

Students at Sandymoor Ormiston academy in Runcorn say lockdown in year 7 was a struggle but hard work has paid off

The Conversation

GCSE results: more young people are studying languages – but the overall picture for language learning remains bleak

The 2024 GCSE results reveal that more young people in schools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are opting to study a language. French and Spanish remain the most popular languages, with increases of 2.9% and 6.2% from last year respectively.

The Guardian - UK

Study arts and humanities because you love them (and so do employers, by the way)

Students should be told the whole story: understanding languages and cultures is a huge advantage in the workplace, says writer and film director Xaymaca Awoyungbo

Evening Standard

GCSE results 2024: London students get best grades in country as top marks fall nationwide

Capital only region in England where more than a quarter of papers were awarded a grade at 7 (A) or above as marking restored to pre-pandemic levels

The Independent UK

GCSE top grades down on last year as north-south divide in England grows

Hundreds of thousands of teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland picked up their results on Thursday morning in a year when grades were due to be restored to 2019 levels in all three nations

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