A rebound in the number of female students opting to sit the GCSE computing exam has occurred during 2022, with the number returning to 2019 levels after two successive years of decline. The number of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. School pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have a busy few weeks ahead sitting exams in subjects such as English and ...

The government has defended its Sats tests for 10 and 11-year-olds after claims that an English exam paper reduced some pupils to tears. Hundreds of parents and teachers complained after a reading ...

Brent Council is to pay the boy's mother £1,000 for "avoidable frustration, time and trouble".

Pupils taking maths, physics and combined science GCSEs will not need to memorise formulae and equations for their exams for the next three years, the Education Secretary has said. Bridget Phillipson ...

Several exams across GCSEs and A-levels could be taken on screens from the end of the decade under new proposals from the exams watchdog. Proposals in a consultation launched by regulator Ofqual on ...

AS-Levels are to be scrapped in Northern Ireland, but there will be changes to A-Levels to give pupils the option of taking exams in year 13. That is part of a major review of GCSE, AS and A-Level ...

The practice began in 2022 as a temporary response to pandemic disruption, allowing students to refer to key equations during ...