In England, students who do not secure at least a grade 4 are required to retake the subjects during post-16 education (Gareth Fuller/PA) (PA Wire) The Government’s policy of compulsory resits in the ...

GCSE resits for English and Maths could be scrapped after the pass rate fell to its lowest level in a decade. The current model requires students who fail these two core subjects at GCSE level to ...

Tory education spokesman Damian Green has called for "an immediate, quick and fully independent inquiry" into remarks by a former chief maths examiner about this year's GCSE results. The shadow ...

University of Leeds provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Anger at the way creative subjects for teenagers seem to have been sidelined by a new focus on core subjects at GCSE ...