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How to Have Sex at the BFI LFF review: best holiday ever? God, let’s hope not

Molly Manning Walker’s award-winning writing-directing debut evokes the rancid sticky-drinks-and-suncream whiff of teenage holidays gone dark

Evening Standard

Threats of failure motivate some students – but it's not a technique to use on the whole class

It is the start of a new academic year, and a fresh group of students will be beginning study towards their GCSEs. After two years, they will be taking exams with important consequences: the results can allow them to carry on in education or go on to certain careers.

The Conversation

School hit by concrete crisis wants lockdown-style GCSE and A-level assessments

St Leonard’s Catholic School in Durham has had to ration face-to-face teaching after much of the site was closed off just before term started.

The Independent UK

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Parents at school with collapse-risk concrete demand it is rebuilt

Children in most year groups at St Leonard’s Catholic School in Durham have had to be taught online for four days a week since term started.

The Independent UK

Private school to move further away from ‘outdated’ GCSEs, headteacher says

Pupils at Bedales School will only sit GCSEs in two subjects – English Language and maths – in the future.

The Independent UK

When should children start secondary school?

Is it best to move to senior school at 11 or 13? Experts, Rosie McColl and James Johnson, discuss the respective benefits of each in an article first published in The Week’s Independent Schools Guide.

The Week

‘Children without a bed aren’t going to be interested in school’: can England’s north-south education divide be repaired?

This year’s GCSE and A-level results exposed devastating inequalities. But Tory promises to help ring hollow

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Ex-schools tsar blames Tories for north-south exam divide

Sir Kevan Collins says government failure to back his £15bn post-Covid catch-up plan caused the stark disparity in this year’s English GCSE results

The Guardian - UK

Political vision can close Britain’s growing education divide. But who has it?

We all have a stake in fixing the regional and class-driven disadvantage that the exam results expose

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on GCSE results: this widening gap will blight children’s lives

The growing discrepancies in attainment could have been avoided if ministers had invested sufficient time, energy and money in education

The Guardian - UK

Kids going to Reading? Don’t panic! It’s a rite-of-passage for UK teenagers

It may have become a lightning rod for parental anxiety but this very British festival is still the dream gig for 16-year-olds fresh from GCSE hell

The Guardian - UK

You’re never too old, says grandmother who passed GCSE English exam aged 74

Anne Blowers, of Nacton near Ipswich, Suffolk worked in the family business before it was sold in 2016 and she retired in 2018.

The Independent UK

Record north-south gap in top GCSE grades blamed on ‘London-centric policies’

North-east school leaders call for government to recognise challenges faced in different parts of England

The Guardian - UK

Top GCSE results fall in return to pre-Covid grading system

Around 203,000 fewer top GCSE grades were awarded in England, Wales and Northern Ireland compared to last year.

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

GCSE results show us a nation of overwhelmed, vulnerable children. Where is the support?

Covid-19, social media, the tyranny of tests – the problems are known, yet politicians fail to draw the threads together, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Independent UK

In Pictures: Joy and relief on GCSE results day

Teenagers across the country were receiving their results on Thursday.

The Guardian - UK

‘Smashed it’: GCSE results bring surprise smiles for post-pandemic year group

Burnage academy pupils celebrate – but there is also anger at ‘bizarre’ decision to grade at 2019 levels

The Independent UK

GCSE trends: What this year’s results tell us

Spanish is closing in on French while music and drama continue to decline.

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The Independent UK

Councillor obtains English GCSE aged 68 and plans to take on maths next

‘Just going through the learning process was really enjoyable,’ said Keith Dibble.

The Guardian - UK

Gender gap shrinks and regional gap widens: 2023’s key GCSE trends in England

Creative subjects are out and statistics is in, while London has widened the gap on the north-east

The Independent UK

NI students celebrate GCSE results despite uncertainty around grade levels

Of the 30,800 GCSE students in the region who received their results, 86.8% received grade C/4 and above, while 34.5% received grade A/7 and above.

The Conversation

Many GCSE students still aren't taking modern foreign languages – how to motivate them to consider it

Figures for GCSEs taken in 2023 show that entries for GCSEs in languages have increased slightly from last year. Despite this, the number of pupils taking a modern foreign language stands at less than 60% of those that did in the peak year of 2001.

The Independent UK

Gap in top GCSE grades between London and North East widens

The regional disparities in results have sparked concerns among social mobility experts and leaders in the North of England.

The Independent UK

GCSE gender gap at its narrowest in 14 years

One in four female entries achieved at least a grade 7 or A this year, compared with almost one in five of male entries.

The Independent UK

Headteacher’s delight at GCSE results for pupils ‘most affected’ by pandemic

A campaign to improve mental health support in Brighton and Hove schools is under way.

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