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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 Guardian - UK

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 Conversation

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 Independent UK

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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 Guardian - UK

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 Conversation

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

The Guardian - UK

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Italian and Polish GCSEs to go digital in 2026, says England’s largest exam board

AQA awaits regulator approval for on-screen assessment of reading and listening components

The Guardian - UK

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

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.

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The Guardian - UK

‘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

The Guardian - UK

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

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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 Independent 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 Guardian - 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 Independent 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 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

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